Vice President, International Structuring

Ladd & Co.; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Ladd & Co. in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, seeks a Vice President to lead the International Structuring practice, designing multi-jurisdictional architectures and managing external counsel and trustees.

The role requires deep technical knowledge across private client tax, corporate tax and trust law, with the ability to translate complex structures into clear advice for principals. Cross-border fluency is essential.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years' relevant experience with substantive transaction or mandate leadership.
• Established credibility with clients, counterparties, and counsel.
• Track record of independent execution on complex matters.
• Cross-border fluency expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex structuring matters end-to-end across multiple jurisdictions.
• Design multi-jurisdictional architectures and coordinate with external counsel and trustees.
• Serve as the day-to-day contact for principal clients and manage client relationships.

Skills

Cross-border fluency

Client credibility

Independent execution

Right to work

Job description

Vice President, International Structuring

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Full-time

Location Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Engagement Full-time

Experience Vice President

Function International Structuring

The Role

The firm is recruiting a Vice President to its International Structuring practice. Vice Presidents lead complex structuring matters end-to-end, designing multi-jurisdictional architectures, managing relationships with external counsel and trustees, and serving as the day-to-day point of contact for principal clients.

The role demands genuine technical depth across private client tax, corporate tax, and trust law, combined with the ability to translate technical structures into clear advice for principals. Cross-border fluency is essential.

Suited to candidates with substantive prior experience in international tax, private client advisory, or trust services at a senior level.

The Firm

Ladd & Co. is a private advisory and investment firm acting for principals, families, and private institutions across M&A, capital placement, structuring, and related mandates. The firm is family owned, operates across nine cities, and does not advertise its work. Clients come to us on a name, and they stay for generations.

Requirements

• 6-10 years' relevant experience, including substantive transaction or mandate leadership
• Established credibility with clients, counterparties, and counsel
• Track record of independent execution on complex matters
• Cross-border fluency expected
• Right to work in the relevant jurisdiction

Bring your judgement, curiosity and sense of responsibility. Work with colleagues across jurisdictions on matters that shape businesses, ownership and families.

A firm built on trust asks people to take ownership of their work. It also gives them a team and a platform to carry it through.

Freedom with accountability

Work is organised around outcomes and client commitments. There are no timesheets. Agree what needs to happen, keep people informed and deliver it well.

One firm, across borders

The firm works remotely across nine cities. Colleagues coordinate across time zones, bringing different experience to the same client relationship.

The firm behind your work

Firm identity, shared systems, relevant relationships and execution support give people a common foundation for their work.

Support for the whole person

• A shared foundation for people working with the firm, with room for different lives and local needs.
• A flexible allowance towards health cover, fitness and wellbeing, with access to confidential support when it is needed.
• An annual learning budget for relevant courses, professional qualifications and memberships, alongside development through the work itself.

Your working environment

• Support for a reliable workspace, suitable equipment and connectivity, so working remotely has a practical foundation.

Time to recharge

• Planned time away with coordinated cover and clear handovers. Time-off arrangements that recognise the need for sustained work and a life beyond it.

Family & life support

• Confidential guidance and practical resources through family changes, caring responsibilities and the unexpected demands of life.

Financial wellbeing

• Independent education and planning resources to help people make informed decisions about their finances and longer-term goals.