Corporate Tax Senior Associate / Legal Director

The role

We are looking for a senior level lawyer (8 years pqe +) to join our tax team in a role with partner-track progression opportunities. You will be a core member of our highly regarded (Legal 500 rated) team, which enjoys an excellent reputation for its work in our specialist sectors.

Your clients will include some of the best-known media and entertainment companies as well as digital commerce, sports, betting and gaming, technology and data driven businesses.

You will primarily support our corporate group, providing comprehensive tax advice on company acquisitions, investments (including venture capital investments), mergers, restructures and joint ventures. You will work on multiple, fast-moving and complex matters, always with a commercial and pragmatic outcome in mind.

You can expect plenty of responsibility and client exposure, together with involvement and encouragement from the outset in business development and the continued growth of the practice.

As a small team, our work is varied. While the focus of this role is corporate transactions support, there will be opportunity to get involved in some of our other interesting tax work alongside other team members. This includes:

• bespoke tax support to other groups across the firm, including our market leading interactive entertainment (video gaming etc), sports, and film and TV groups
• tax advice to corporates across our client base on a broad range of issues including financing, tax residency/permanent establishment issues, cross border withholding tax, tax credits, IP structuring, EIS and VAT
• employment tax and incentive schemes (whether tax advantaged or otherwise). In connection with this we also work closely with an independent LawTech business, IR35 Manager, advising its clients on employment tax status compliance and related issues.

We also benefit from an independent tax practice providing tax consultancy services to clients on policy matters and their impact.

About you

We expect you will have at least 8 years’ pqe gained in UK corporate tax work to have built the level of expertise required.

This is a senior, client facing role, so you will need strong technical knowledge and the ability to apply those technical tax concepts in a fast-moving commercial context. You’ll need to be able to work independently as well as collaboratively as required.

We are known for providing exceptional levels of client satisfaction, so we are looking for someone who is adept at building excellent relationships and who ideally is already knowledgeable and enthusiastic about our client sectors.

We are looking to build our team, and this is a role with clear potential for partnership for the right candidate, if desired, in the medium term. That will require you to demonstrate strong leadership qualities and build a track record of business and practice development success.

In any event, we’re looking for you to be keen to grow your practice and skills in a truly supportive, entrepreneurial and friendly firm.

About us

Wiggin is one of the UK’s most forward-thinking and successful media, technology and IP law firms.

We have an impressive range of clients including Hollywood studios, major TV production and streaming services, games businesses, music studios and blue-chip technology and communication firms, alongside entrepreneurs, early-stage ventures and much more.

Our culture is unique among law firms – both in what we expect from our people and the way we create value in the industries we serve. We empower our people, expect commitment and excellence, and celebrate when we achieve it.

Our values are at the heart of everything that we do and define Wiggin as a workplace: being visionary, authentic, unified, responsible and excellent across-the-board.

There isn’t a typical Wiggin person. We aim to build teams that are diverse in thought, perspective and experience to provide a more rounded service to our internal and external clients.

We currently operate a discretionary hybrid working model allowing 2 days per week working from home. We offer an attractive remuneration package including 25 days holiday (plus birthdays off and buy/sell options), comprehensive private medical insurance, permanent health insurance and more from your first day of employment.

For more information, see www.wiggin.co.uk.