Private Client and Tax Associate (1-4 PQE)

Withersworldwide; City of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global law firm is seeking a Private Client and Tax Associate with 1-4 years of PQE to join their London office. The role involves providing UK personal tax advice, delivering high-quality services, and managing client relationships, focusing on wealth planning and offshore structures. Ideal candidates should have previous experience in private client work and strong academic backgrounds. A collaborative team player is essential, and flexibility in working hours is required.

Benefits

Flexible benefits package

Qualifications

• 1-4 PQE in England & Wales required.
• Experience with transactions and large projects preferred.
• Ability to manage clients’ affairs effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide UK personal tax advice for domestic and international families.
• Deliver high-quality professional services focusing on UK tax.
• Advise on offshore structures' establishment and management.
• Build and maintain a network of intermediaries.
• Engage in business development with clients.

Skills

Private client experience

Wealth structuring knowledge

Tax advice expertise

Excellent communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Strong academic background

Job description

Private Client and Tax Associate (1-4 PQE)

We are looking for a 1-4 PQE Associate to join our Private Client and Tax team in London!

A law firm focused on people, performance, and collaboration.

For the past 125 years, we have supported some of the world’s most remarkable people and organizations at defining moments in their lives.

As the global private client firm, we are trusted advisors to families, founders, fiduciaries and businesses – and more than this, to governments, charities and financial institutions. We structure, grow and preserve capital. We protect reputations and relationships, ideas and innovations. We secure our clients’ legacies across generations. We are united in our commitment to integrity, quality and collaboration. We have a culture of high performance and deliver excellent service consistently across the firm. We provide tailored solutions built on trust and partner with our clients to achieve their goals.

Many of our clients are shaping the future, and creating solutions to tackle many of the world’s problems. It makes for a fascinating and challenging practice.

Our role is to get to know each individual client, find out where they want to be, and help them to get there – whether they are building a business, buying a home or protecting and defending their interests.

To meet their unique needs we are exceptionally collaborative, working together across teams and time zones. And we are agile – focusing on strategy rather than rigid ideas and traditional hierarchy.

We are delighted that we have been awarded Mansfield Certification Plus in relation to our recruitment and leadership progression efforts in the US and UK. This certification is an encouraging milestone as we continue to champion diversity within our organization and in the wider legal sector.

Join us to be part of a team that is always looking to the future. Where initiative, big ideas and bold moves are always encouraged. Where you can truly be yourself.

Private Client and Tax Division

Today, we are the only global law firm dedicated to the personal and private capital needs of high-net-worth individuals and families.

Many of our clients are international families with interests in a number of locations. In a fast-moving and increasingly compliance focused world, the need for integrated advice that reaches across borders has never been greater. With offices across Europe, the United States and Asia-Pacific we provide coverage that other law firms in this area cannot match. Our team of experienced private client solicitors continually look for opportunities to ensure we have a strong presence in the locations where our clients live, work and invest.

Our advice to fiduciaries covers the design and implementation of new plans, as well as the modernization and consolidation of older trusts. We also assist them in complying with the complex rules surrounding investments, accounting, taxes and compliance.

This practice generates approximately 55% of the partnership's revenues and is the largest in the world with over 300 people. We advise on domestic and international tax, estate planning, succession and mental capacity laws in Europe, the US and Asia, as well as facilitating our client's philanthropic endeavours. We have immigration teams in the major financial centres and arewell placed to deal with tax investigation and litigation cases. Real estate is very important to our clients, and we have a specialist residential and rural team.

Clients from every walk of life

Our clients have achieved success in many fields, from senior executives to multi-generational families, owners, managers and investors in private capital and some of the world’s wealthiest people. In Europe we have represented 70% of The Sunday Times top 100 Rich List and in Asia we act for 35% of the Hong Kong Forbes Rich List.

We act not just as private client lawyers but trusted advisers, looking to build strong relationships with you and with other professionals advising you. This is one of the reasons we are proud to have been asked to represent families down the generations.

Our mission: To be recognised as the top, and only truly global, law firm offering integrated domestic and international private client and tax advice.

The private client team is ranked top in our offices around the world by the leading legal directories and have won and been shortlisted for a number of well recognised awards over the years.

The Role

The role will cover a mixed caseload involving all aspects of tax, domestic and international wealth planning and trusts. Other key accountabilities include:

• UK personal tax advice for both domestic and international families on their succession and tax planning using wills, corporates, partnerships, trusts and other structures.
• Delivering high quality professional services with a focus on UK tax.
• Advice to settlors, fiduciaries and beneficiaries regarding the establishment and management of offshore structures.
• Managing clients’ affairs effectively and profitably through delivery of own case load.
• Building and maintaining a network of intermediaries and enthusiasm for developing business.
• Actively working on business development with domestic and international clients.

Key skills and experience

• Previous experience of private client, wealth structuring and tax advice
• Candidates must be between 1-4 PQE in England & Wales
• Experience of working on transactions and large projects
• Strong academics
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Team player

The essentials

• Working hours: 9.30am – 5.30pm but flexibility is a must

Flexible benefits package

Information for Recruitment Agencies

Withers endeavours to recruit and fill vacancies directly. However, when we do need to engage with agencies, Withers operates a preferred supplier list and will not be accepting unsolicited applications from non-PSL agencies for this role.

It is the policy of Withers to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training, and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

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