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Taxation experts
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£48,500
(£24.87 per hour)
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Description
Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.
Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.
Job role: Senior Associate / Legal Director
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Corporate (Tax)
Location:
London
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here Are Some Examples Of What We Offer
Annual leave starting at 25 days
Annual bonus scheme
Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
Annual fitness allowance
Flexible pension scheme
ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
Medicash
EAP with access to counselling
Enhanced family leave policies
Access to confidential, expert support via Fertifa in relation to reproductive health and wellbeing
Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year via Bright Horizons
Life assurance
Group income protection
Annual travel season ticket loan
Hybrid working and dress for your day policy
Bespoke training and development opportunities
Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role Overview
Introduction to the role:
We are looking for an ambitious and experienced tax lawyer to join our leading corporate team in London. The team, headed up by Michael Bennett, is recognised for their combination of technical expertise, commercial acumen and excellent client service.
Introduction To The Team
Our highly experienced and recognised corporate team operates from our offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Leeds, Hong Kong and Singapore. We offer our clients accessible corporate support from our experienced national and international network and specialise in advising a range of clients, from large-listed companies and private equity funds to smaller start-up and owner-managed businesses and management teams on the full range of transactions - both domestic and cross-border.
Key Responsibilities
Advising clients on a wide range of corporate tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, corporate finance and banking transactions.
Providing advice to investors, developers, landlords and tenants, and ‘property rich’ or property-reliant businesses on the tax (including SDLT, VAT, CIS and chargeable gains) implications of direct and indirect property investments, disposals and projects.
Providing tax-efficient structuring advice to a variety of clients (be they corporates, OMBs, private equity houses or management teams) on reorganisations, joint ventures, debt restructurings, development projects and inward investments.
Producing and negotiating clear, concise and unambiguous tax drafting for inclusion in transaction documents.
Training, managing and supervising junior associates, trainees and paralegals and building excellent working relationships with senior team members and partners.
Developing your own internal and external network of contacts and playing a significant role in business development for the team.
Attending, and helping to arrange, business development and profile-raising events (client seminars, legal directories updates and submissions, website news and publications on social media).
Developing and maintaining tax knowledge and understanding at an individual and team level and (as appropriate) within the wider firm.
Assisting with business development and pitches including (where appropriate) client training or research about tax issues relevant to particular clients or targets.
What Are We Looking For
Important criteria:
Qualified Solicitor or equivalent
Clear and demonstrable experience of corporate and/or real estate tax matters.
It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:
The ability to independently manage a varied tax caseload and provide technically sound and commercial tax advice.
Strong technical skills and a willingness to continue and promote learning.
A willingness to adhere to guidelines and procedures.
A desire to contribute to and help shape tax team initiatives.
An understanding of clients’ needs and expectations.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise.
Proficiency in use of document management systems
Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours, if required.
If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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