Job Description

Working on a national and international scale, highlights include corporate restructurings, investment fund transactions and property development transactions. The team regularly advises clients and intermediaries on a wide range of tax issues including:

• Corporate finance support on trade, private equity and renewables deals, including related advisory work
• Transfers of going concerns, including administration sales
• Corporate reconstructions, including demergers and intra-group reorganizations
• Advising on inbound investment structures
• Investor reliefs and advice on tax efficient extraction of value from private companies
• Tax advice to buyers and sellers of development land
• Advice to investors (including non-residents) in UK commercial and residential property, including SDLT, LBTT, LTT and VAT advice
• Advising in relation to UK authorized funds, including OEICs, AUTs and ACS
• Advising pension funds on investments
• Financing tax advice, including in relation to loan facility agreements, derivatives, finance leasing and other financing arrangements
• Disclosure of tax irregularities to HMRC and dealing with HMRC investigations

This role provides excellent opportunities to use a wide-range of skills and experience. With a varied work load, you can expect to become involved in all or any of the following:

• Corporate finance support
• Structuring acquisitions and disposals
• Advising on corporate reconstruction and group arrangements
• Structuring property transactions for landowners, developers, funds and end users
• Bank lending and acquisition finance support
• Employment tax related advice
• Advice on shareholder and investor taxation, including reliefs
• EIS, SEIS, VCT advice
• Partnership tax
• Tax advice to owner-managed businesses
• Taxation of funds and pension schemes
• Tax-related litigation, investigations and enquiries

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong academics, coupled with evidence of good quality training and experience gained at a firm with a reputation for high quality corporate tax work.
• A strong team player.
• Excellent interpersonal, client and commercial skills.
• Adaptable and able to deal with complex, varied work under pressure.
• You will have gained experience leading others to develop their skills and knowledge.
• You will need to be a SRA registered lawyer.

An existing CTA qualification and a specialism within the wider corporate tax environment would be advantageous.