Legal Director - Private Wealth & Tax

Job Summary

Due to continued expansion, we are seeking a Legal Director to act as an additional right-hand practitioner to Patrick Harney, Partner in Mishcon de Reya's Tier 1 Private Wealth & Tax team, supporting the day-to-day management and growth of his practice. Patrick's practice focuses on cross-border personal tax advice and planning, with a particular focus on US-UK tax, trust and estate planning and tax planning under the new foreign income & gains regime, acting for high-profile individuals, families, family offices and hedge funds spanning the UK, Ireland, the USA and Latin America.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Patrick across a broad caseload of UK personal tax, trust and estate planning matters, providing high-quality technical support and independent judgement.
• Advise on UK tax planning for formerly non-domiciled and internationally mobile clients, including the taxation of private placement life insurance, offshore trusts and companies and legacy remittance basis positions.
• Support cross-border estate planning for UHNW individuals, families and family offices, coordinating with advisers in other jurisdictions as needed.
• Help manage the smooth day-to-day running of the practice, including workflow, resourcing, billing oversight and client service standards.
• Support business development activity, including client relationship management, proposals, thought leadership and profile-building initiatives.
• Supervise and mentor junior lawyers working on shared matters, contributing to their technical development.
• Take on personal supervision of an allocated portfolio of matters, under Patrick's continued overall oversight.

Skills/Experience

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales, with a minimum of seven years' post-qualification experience in UK personal tax.
• High degree of technical knowledge of personal tax law, including the historic remittance basis of taxation, the UK tax treatment of offshore trusts and companies and cross-border estate planning. Technical expertise will be tested at interview.
• Cross-border tax and trust experience involving the United States is an advantage but not a prerequisite.
• A strong analytical mind and excellent problem-solving skills, with the judgement to handle complex, high-value private client matters.
• A collaborative, trusted-adviser mindset, comfortable working closely and flexibly alongside a senior partner in a right-hand capacity.
• No existing portfolio or book of business is required for this role.

Reporting line and progression

This role will report directly to Patrick Harney. The successful candidate will work with Patrick on his client matters and also be assigned their own matters to run and supervise, while continuing to report to and work under Patrick's overall oversight.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About

About Mishcon de Reya LLP

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm, which now employs over 1400 people with more than 650 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

With presence in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.

The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.