Director – Funds Tax

Clifford Chance; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative and ambitious firm seeks a Counsel or Senior Associate to join their renowned tax team. In this role, you will work on complex, high-value matters that often make headlines, collaborating with international teams across various jurisdictions. You will have the opportunity to engage with leading fund managers and contribute to a diverse range of funds-related transactions. This role offers a balanced hybrid working approach, allowing you to thrive in a supportive environment that values professional development and client relationship management. If you are passionate about tax law and eager to grow your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Strong relevant funds tax experience as a lawyer with an established tax practice.
• Outstanding academic history and proven first-rate legal skills.

Responsibilities

• Work at the forefront of diverse tax matters alongside market-leading private funds teams.
• Develop new client contacts and manage existing relationships.

Skills

Funds Tax Experience

Legal Skills

Commercial Awareness

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Client Relationship Management

Business Development

Education

Outstanding Academic History

Job description

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part of an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Hybrid Working

This role follows our 'balanced' hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow, you will be supported to work in a hybrid way with the expectation of working from the office for a minimum of 50% of your time.

Job Description

Tax and Funds Overview

Our UK tax team is unique in its breadth and depth – no other firm has leading corporate tax, finance tax, real estate tax, funds tax, indirect tax and tax litigation expertise. We advise some of the world's largest and most complex businesses, and work on transactions and disputes that hit the headlines.

Unlike other firms, we also have funds-tax specialists across both our European platform and in the US.

Our global market-leading funds practice mirrors this breadth, with funds teams based in the UK, US, Europe and APAC.

We have significant depth of resources. You would join a team of around 150 specialist tax advisers worldwide. The London Tax group has 7 partners, 3 Directors and 12 associates.

Who you will work with

We both provide standalone tax advice, and work closely with our corporate and funds colleagues to deliver commercial advice across the full spectrum of funds-related transactions including fund raisings across all strategies, carry structuring, fund co-investments, continuation vehicles, LP portfolio sale secondaries, GP M&A, LP side work and much more. Our tax team is central to the firm's global funds practice.

As a Counsel or Senior Associate, you would be working as part of a highly regarded and ambitious team advising many of the world's leading fund managers on all of the above matters.

What you will be responsible for

• You will work at the forefront of the market across a diverse range of tax work covering the above matters alongside our market leading private funds teams. The nature of Clifford Chance and our funds and tax practice means that the work necessarily has a strong international flavour; you will routinely be working alongside our international teams (including our US, European and APAC funds teams) across a range of matters.
• The "one team" approach is core to Clifford Chance's ethos and we work with colleagues around our international network on a daily basis.

What you will do

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• You will be working with a broad range of clients and the Firm's tax, funds and corporate teams across the globe.
• You will have exposure to work which often involves complex, high value matters that frequently headline in the financial and business press.
• You will have extensive client contact both as part of your daily working routine but will also have the opportunity to develop new client contacts.
• You will be working alongside a number of market leaders in their respective geographies and practice areas.

Qualifications

Your career experience so far

You will have strong relevant funds tax experience as a lawyer with an established tax practice, probably gained at a City firm, or at an overseas practice in a common law jurisdiction with a highly regarded profile.

In all cases you will have an outstanding academic history and proven first rate legal skills, combined with a strong reputation amongst existing clients for providing commercial solutions and excellent transactional and management skills.

You should demonstrate strong communication and analytical skills along with a high level of commercial awareness.

You will need to demonstrate that you can thrive in a team with high professional standards and a flexible client-friendly commercial approach. You will have had strong exposure of collaborating with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.

It is crucial that you can demonstrate an appetite for business development, client relationship management and thought leadership.

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and develop your skills, knowledge and client base.

Additional Information

Equal opportunities statement

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here.