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Corporate Tax Lawyer

Employer
Burges Salmon
Location
Bristol
Salary
£59500 Per Month Competitive
Closing date
22 Aug 2018
Reference
CTL03/17~33596

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Practice area
Banking and finance
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
4 years
Position
Apprentice
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

We are looking for a corporate tax lawyer to join our tier 1 tax team. You will have strong academics, good quality experience gained at a leading law firm. You should be flexible and willing to undertake new areas of practice. An existing CTA qualification and a specialism within the wider corporate tax environment, would be advantageous.

Team

Our lawyers are renowned for providing high-quality creative and effective solutions to clients across a range of industry sectors, both nationally and internationally. Our tax lawyers, including a number of chartered tax advisors, have comprehensive tax knowledge and deep sector insight, providing the highest legal advice to our clients.

We play an integral supporting role in a wide range of transactions and also attract work on a standalone basis, both contentious and non-contentious. We are "really commercial and proactive at suggesting workable solutions to problems" and "there is a high technical level for all members of staff, they are also very courteous and very good at progressing work" (Chambers).

Clients

Our clients range from corporate entities and trusts, to charitable bodies, as well as High Net Worth individuals domiciled in the UK and abroad. Clients include Cooperative Group, The Crown Estate, First, John Lewis, Ministry of Defence, Virgin, Yeo Valley Group, YTL Hotels, etc

Work

Working on a national and international scale, highlights include corporate restructurings, investment fund transactions and property transactions. The team have advised clients and intermediaries on a wide range of tax issues including:

  • Corporate finance support on trade and private equity deals
  • HMRC investigations
  • Management tax incentives on buy-in and buy-out
  • Tax advice to buyers and sellers of development land
  • Advice to investment funds on inward investment in UK commercial and residential property
  • Advice on tax efficient extraction of value from private companies and partnerships
  • Advice on innovative user of partnership structures
  • SDLT and ATED advice to residential and non-residential persons regarding investment in UK urban and rural property
  • Disclosure of tax irregularities and HMRC under the various disclosure regimes
  • Maximising entrepreneurs relief of SSE on setting-up and disposing of real estate assets and shares
  • Tax based mediation
  • Issues surrounding VAT and sales by receivers, etc

This role provides excellent opportunities to use a wide-range of skills and experience. With a varied work load, you can expect to become involved in all or any of the following:

  • Corporate finance support
  • Structuring acquisition and disposals
  • Advising on corporate reconstruction and group arrangements
  • Investigations and enquiries
  • Structuring property transactions for landowners, funds and end users
  • Asset finance support
  • Employee related tax advice
  • Advice to minimise shareholder tax
  • EIS, SEIS VCT and corporate venturing advice
  • Partnership tax
  • Environmental taxes
  • Tax advice to owner-managed businesses
  • Tax-related litigation

More information

https://www.burges-salmon.com/expertise/specialist-expertise/tax/

Contact

For further information, please contact: angela.parfitt@burges-salmon.com Tel: 0117 307 6026

Applications

To apply, please visit our website at www.burges-salmon.com/careers.

Company

Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.

Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.

Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.

Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.

We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment.  The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.

Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.

If you are interested in opportunities, either advertised or on a speculative basis and would like to speak to someone, please contact angela.parfitt@burges-salmon.com Tel: +44 (0) 117 307 6026.

Company info
Telephone
01173076026
Location
One Glass Wharf
Bristol
Choose a State/Province
BS2 0ZX
GB

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