Corporate Tax - Senior Associate

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Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world\’s most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Tax and Incentives team, with the addition of a Corporate Tax – Senior Associate.

Meet the team

Award-winning and highly ranked, our Corporate Tax team is recognised by Chambers UK, The Legal 500, and Tolley’s Taxation Awards for its excellence in corporate and business tax. Known for handling complex, often cross-border matters, the team advises on M&A, private equity structuring, IP and real estate transactions across sectors including technology, life sciences, and private capital. With three partners and a strong group of senior associates, associates, and trainees, we work closely with colleagues across the firm to deliver integrated, commercially focused tax advice that supports some of the most innovative and high-growth businesses in the UK and beyond.

You’ll work alongside leading experts like Graham Samuel-Gibbon, Liz Wilson, and James Ross, who bring deep international experience and a passion for mentoring.

The opportunity for you

This role offers the opportunity to work on a broad range of technically challenging and high-quality corporate tax matters, including M&A, private equity, real estate structuring, and cross-border advisory work. You’ll be part of a team that is well integrated across the firm, regularly collaborating with colleagues in corporate, finance, IP, and real estate.

The position would suit someone with a solid foundation in UK corporate tax who is looking to deepen their expertise and take on more responsibility in a supportive and intellectually engaging environment. You’ll have access to structured development opportunities, regular training, and the chance to contribute to business development and knowledge-sharing initiatives. The firm supports flexible working and offers a culture that values collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth.

Key Responsibilities

• You will work alongside the partners, existing associates and senior associates to provide tax advice, principally to clients of other practice areas of the firm, but also to clients instructing the group directly.
• Typically, you will work in collaboration with the corporate, real estate, finance, IP, IT and private client practice areas.
• Particular areas of focus will be M&A, private equity structuring and transactions, corporate and IP/IT structuring (including cross-border planning and inward investment to the UK), funds work, financing and refinancing transactions and domestic and international tax advisory work, real estate transactions and structuring (from both a direct and indirect tax perspective).
• You will need to have experience in some or all of these areas mentioned above.
• We encourage you to take an active role in business development initiatives driven both by the team and other areas of the firm and in the development and presentation of training programmes for the group and wider firm.
• As a Senior Associate, you will have responsibility for supervising trainees and junior colleagues.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• UK-qualified solicitor or barrister.
• Strong experience working on corporate tax matters and transactions.
• Bright with strong technical ability.
• Strong client management and communication skills.
• Good personal organisation and file management skills.

Benefits

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm\’s core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We\’re creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that\’s large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.