Private Client Tax Partner – Transaction Tax (Sell Side)

Location: London, UK

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Team: Private Client

Blick Rothenberg is a leading tax, accountancy, and business advisory firm founded on personal integrity and technical expertise. Our partner-led approach ensures clients receive excellent service from high-quality teams who combine skill with integrity. We take the time to understand our clients’ businesses and invest in long-term relationships to provide the best possible service. To bring this ethos to life, we have articulated our approach through our values: Collaboration, Authenticity, Respect, and being Dynamic.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading sell-side private client tax advice on business disposals, share sales, group reorganisations, and exits.
• Advising founders and shareholders on pre-sale planning, including CGT mitigation, BADR, trust planning, and succession.
• Acting as a trusted adviser to entrepreneurs and families at pivotal moments in their personal and professional lives.
• Driving and originating new work by leveraging existing relationships and developing new ones.
• Collaborating closely with corporate tax colleagues and a trusted professional network to deliver integrated transaction advice.
• Playing a key role in shaping strategy, mentoring senior colleagues, and building future talent.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience operating at Partner or Director level within Private Client or Transaction Tax.
• A recognised adviser to entrepreneurs, owner-managed businesses, and their shareholders, with a strong personal and professional reputation.
• Demonstrable track record of originating, leading, and delivering complex sell-side private client tax mandates.
• Established market presence with the ability to influence, advise, and build trust at board and shareholder level.
• Ambition to help deliver and grow a market-leading private client proposition.
• Appropriate professional qualifications and standing to operate at UK Private Client Tax Partner level.

We’re looking for an experienced UK Private Client Tax Partner with deep expertise in sell-side transaction tax to join our growing Entrepreneurs team in the Private Client practice. This is a genuine opportunity to work alongside the Head of Entrepreneurs and play a leading role in advising entrepreneurs, owner-managed businesses, family shareholders and UHNW individuals during the life cycle of their business, and in particular on complex exit events — from pre-sale structuring through to completion and post-transaction planning. You’ll have the platform, autonomy and support to help deliver a market-leading proposition, working closely with entrepreneurial focussed colleagues across the business.

What It Means to Be a Partner at Blick Rothenberg

There is no single Partner mould at Blick Rothenberg. The firm succeeds because its Partners bring different strengths — client leadership, technical depth, origination, people development, operational excellence, or a blend of all. What unites them is mindset and ownership.

A Creator and Driver of Value

• Grow the firm in revenue, margin, capability, talent and reputation.
• Operate with genuine ownership, accountable for the success and sustainability of the business.
• Build strength across the firm by sharing clients, opportunities and expertise.
• Develop people and succession, coaching teams to reach their potential.
• Champion high standards in quality, governance, ethics and client protection.
• Continue personal and professional growth, embracing change and raising the bar.

Each Partner has a tailored scorecard capturing all objectives — financial and non-financial, ensuring clarity while recognising that different Partner roles deliver value in different ways.

What You Get

• Flexibility to shape how, where and when you perform your role, contributing to firm growth on your terms.
• Trust and autonomy to be entrepreneurial, backed by a mature platform and one of Europe’s largest PE-backed professional services groups.
• A culture of collaboration, high standards, and a proud high-performance environment.
• A proven track record of growth and success under a decade of PE investment, with transformation and capital events demonstrating value creation for partners.
• Participation in a market-leading sweet equity scheme aligning your success with the firm, Azets Group and investors.

Inclusion and Diversity

Let’s BRselves: Celebrating individuality and recognising the power of diverse perspectives. Providing equitable opportunities for growth and success. Holding ourselves accountable for making meaningful change together.

We are a Disability Confident committed employer.

Blick Rothenberg is part of Azets, an award-winning firm of accountants and business advisors operating across the UK, Nordics, and the USA. Azets is a family of over 6,500 employees and has experienced significant growth in recent years, making it the 9th largest accountancy firm in the UK.

What’s in it for you?

• Hybrid working: Teams collaborate across multiple locations — BR offices, client sites, home, or elsewhere.
• Smarter working: Find simpler, more efficient ways to deliver services, supported by tech or process improvements.
• Flexible working: Temporary or permanent adjustments to your working pattern, beyond the standard contract.

Our Benefits at a Glance

• Pension: Looking after your future self when it’s time to step back and relax.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays: Time to focus on you.
• Financial security: Life assurance, free mortgage advice, financial coaching.
• Health & wellbeing: Private medical insurance (eligibility applies), 24/7 GP access, mental health support, eye care, flu vaccinations.
• Lifestyle perks: Employee discount platform, holiday trading, cycle-to-work scheme, home & tech purchase scheme, electric vehicle leasing, season ticket loan.
• Additional cover options: Critical illness cover, travel insurance, dental insurance, health assessments.
• Giving back: Charitable donations via payroll.