Job Description
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Private Client Solicitor to join my clients team in their Reading, Berkshire offices on a hybrid basis.
This senior role sits within the Private Wealth team and is ideal for someone who thrives on technical work and wants to contribute to the strategic growth of a high-performing practice.
The position centres on sophisticated tax and estate planning, including cross-border structures, multi-jurisdictional estates and complex and high-value family wealth arrangements. You will work closely with senior colleagues on advanced planning matters while also helping to drive business development initiatives and strengthen the team’s market presence.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Advising on complex estate and tax planning for High-Net-Worth individuals, business owners and internationally mobile clients
- Developing inheritance tax strategies and succession planning solutions for families with multi-jurisdictional assets
- Drafting wills, LPAs, trust documentation and related private client instruments
- Structuring, creating and administering trusts, including those with cross-border elements
- Supporting senior lawyers on advanced tax and estate planning projects, including international planning and restructuring
- Advising family-owned businesses on succession planning, governance structures and long-term wealth preservation
- Developing tax-efficient strategies for the transfer of business interests, including reliefs such as Business Property Relief and related planning
- Working with corporate and commercial colleagues on the private-client aspects of business restructures, shareholder arrangements and exit planning
Skills, Attributes & Experience:
- Significant experience across Wills, trusts, tax and broader Private Client advisory work
- Strong technical grounding in estate and tax planning, particularly for High-Net-Worth and cross-border clients
- Confidence handling complex matters independently, including multi-jurisdictional planning
- Experience advising family business owners on succession, governance and the taxation of business assets
- Strong understanding of Business Property Relief, Capital Gains Tax planning and the tax implications of transferring business interests
- Ability to navigate the interplay between corporate structures and personal estate planning for entrepreneurial and multi-generational families
- STEP and/or CTA qualifications preferred
- Excellent drafting, analytical and communication skills
- A meticulous, organised and methodical approach
- Commercial awareness and the ability to apply legal knowledge pragmatically
- Experience supervising junior colleagues
- A proactive approach to business development and profile-raising
Should you have any questions or wish to apply please do not hesitate to contact Clear Legal and Financial Recruitment.
Please Note: Due to the number of applications we receive we may be unable to respond to every application directly. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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