Senior Associate, Tax

Job Title
Senior Associate, Tax
Location
LondonDescription

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

The successful candidate will have:

• 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