Associate / Senior Associate, Corporate Tax

JOB DESCRIPTION

About Herbert Smith Freehills

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

The Opportunity

• Work in a market leading international practice, launching our Luxembourg office with high-calibre fee earners in a collegiate and entrepreneurial "start up" environment.
• Regular collaboration with our international network in addition to working hand-in-hand with the Luxembourg Funds and Corporate teams.
• Advising on the tax aspects of transactions, real estate deals, mergers and acquisitions, project financing, structured finance, securitizations, corporate restructuring, and intellectual property.
• Role-specific – the opportunity to advise on a wide range of transactions, including in relation to the taxation of M&A often with a strong emphasis on cross border deals, corporate restructuring, energy taxation (including upstream work), equity and debt capital markets, finance, UK real estate, projects, funds and private equity.
• Responsibilities will vary depending on level of qualification and experience to date; our culture is to reward ability and enthusiasm with responsibility early, and our associates are encouraged to adopt a client facing role.
• Support the firm and others - extend effective relationships across the global network; contribute to the development of team members; uphold the firm’s values; contribute to the firm’s initiatives; take steps to cultivate an excellent reputation and profile in the market and internally; attend marketing / industry events and draft or help prepare articles, precedents and know-how materials; lead the development and delivery of training and presentations.

Key internal relationships :

Supervising lawyer, other group partners, solicitors / associates, trainees / graduate solicitors, paralegals, secretarial staff

Key external relationships :

Clients, peers, contacts, other firms and professions (eg financial advisers, intermediaries, experts and local lawyers)

Practice group / team

Our global tax group has an in-depth understanding of the tax and commercial issues facing clients in the current economic climate, and lawyers in the team draw on their longstanding relationships with those clients to devise innovative and workable solutions to their problems. We act for some of the world’s pre-eminent companies, organisations and investment banks on a wide range of direct and indirect tax issues, providing transactional tax advice all over the world as an integral part of the transaction team. In addition the team also advises on tax disputes.

We have long been recognised for tax expertise, in an advisory and transactional capacity, in a number of specialist fields including : corporate M&A; real estate (including REITS), energy (including up-stream oil and gas) and infrastructure; insurance; investment funds and asset management; TMT and outsourcing; corporate rescue and restructuring, and finance.

Our ability to draw upon the expertise of tax lawyers across our international network builds on the strength for our global tax offering to clients. Our lawyers play a pivotal role in sourcing and applying foreign tax advice to transactions and disputes in which our clients are involved. The global nature of our tax practice also reflects the "internationalisation" of certain aspects of tax law.

Primary Objectives :

Qualifications, skills and experience :

Team

Corporate

Working Pattern

Full time

Location

Luxembourg

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.