Junior Associate - Tax

Overview

Role: Junior Associate (NQ-2 PQE)

Department: Tax

Location: London

The Team: We have a market-leading tax team that advises on complex and high-profile corporate and real estate transactions, alongside specialist areas including asset finance (with focus on aircraft and ship transactions), cross-border tax and financing arrangements, international trade, customs duties and import VAT, employment taxation and incentives, and tax disputes, investigations and appeals for multinationals, owner-managed businesses and high-net-worth individuals. The team supports major insurance underwriters, brokers and agents on tax matters. Our senior leadership comprises highly regarded tax experts, recognised in leading directories, with experience across domestic and international organisations, leveraging our global office network to reflect local legislation and practice. We focus on minimising tax exposure while maximising reliefs, and advise on VAT, IPT, cross-border structuring, UK insurance business establishment, M&A tax, tax W&I insurance, and professional indemnity matters for insurers and insureds.

Key Responsibilities:

• To support the three tax partners with their wide range of work described above.
• To work closely with the existing tax associates and help supervise the Tax Team trainee.
• As a junior associate/Associate you would be expected to work with all three partners and initially would not “specialise” in any particular field of taxation.
• “Bread and butter” work would generally be mid-market M&A, real estate transactions, VAT, and employment taxation.
• Assist with internal and external profile raising/marketing, including delivering internal training talks to different departments within the firm and helping to write tax bulletins/updates.
• Assist and partake in regular tax-know-how training sessions including helping to prepare and deliver our monthly Tax Case Update sessions, and the regular Finance Bill update sessions.
• Assist the tax, corporate and real estate partners with pitches to new clients or new mandates.
• Attend marketing/business development events.

Skills & Experience:

• Qualified lawyer NQ-2 years PQE, ideally with post-qualification experience in tax.
• Demonstrated experience in corporate tax, ideally gained within private practice (legal or accounting firm).
• Exposure to a broad range of tax matters, with an interest in developing across multiple areas of a full-service tax practice.
• Experience advising, or a strong interest in advising, high-profile international clients, particularly within the insurance and/or real estate sectors.
• Strong academic background with excellent technical tax knowledge.
• Proven ability to manage a varied caseload with confidence and autonomy where appropriate.
• Commercially minded with an entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective client relationships.
• High level of attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Collaborative team player who values a supportive, collegiate working environment.
• Commitment to ongoing learning, technical development and delivering high-quality client service.
• Candidates with relevant in-house experience (e.g. HMRC or similar organisations) will also be considered.