Senior Associate, Tax

Ashurst Perkins Coie; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible work options

Health and wellbeing benefits

Career advancement opportunities

Résumé du poste

Ashurst Perkins Coie is seeking a senior associate to join its London Tax team. The role focuses on high-quality transactional and advisory corporate tax work, with emphasis on private equity investments, real estate, and infrastructure.

A 5+ year PQE is required, along with domestic and international tax advisory experience. The successful candidate will handle complex structuring, provide strategic advice, and engage in business development while maintaining strong client relationships.

Qualifications

• 5+ PQE as a corporate tax lawyer at an international or top-tier law firm.
• Experience advising corporate and commercial clients on domestic and international tax matters.
• Experience advising sectors including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and funds/secondaries.
• Experience structuring transactions or investment funds/platforms.
• Drafting structure papers and complex tax advisory notes.

Responsabilités

• Provide high-quality corporate tax advice across transactions and advisory matters.
• Manage projects and transactions with pro-active, organized communication.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm for business development and client relations.
• Deliver first-class service by understanding clients' needs and priorities.
• Understand client industries and the broader business landscape.

Connaissances

Technical skills

Analytical ability

Interpersonal skills

Business development

Client communication

Description du poste

Description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Associate to join the London Tax team, a collegiate and growing department offering high quality transactional and advisory tax work across a broad range of practice areas, with excellent career development and responsibility. The firm is seeking a 5+ year PQE corporate tax lawyer experienced in all forms of corporate tax, with particular emphasis on private equity investments, capital deployment by private capital, and joint ventures, including in the real estate and infrastructure sectors.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Deploying excellent technical and analytical skills across legal drafting, legislative and case law interpretation, and translating technical concepts into strategic advice
• Managing projects and transactions in a pro-active and organised manner, and communicating well with colleagues, clients, counterparties and other advisers
• Demonstrating enthusiasm for business development and strong interpersonal skills
• Dedicating to understanding clients' needs and priorities and delivering a first-class service
• Understanding the industries and wider business landscape in which clients operate, including the commercial challenges and opportunities they face

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site

About You

• Senior level associate experience gained at an international law firm (5+ PQE only)
• Experience advising corporate and commercial clients on tax matters in a domestic and international context
• Experience advising clients in some or all of the following sectors: real estate, infrastructure, private equity, venture, credit, and fund-of-funds (including secondaries)
• Experience structuring transactions or investment funds/platforms
• Experience drafting structure papers and complex advice notes