Mid-Senior Funds Tax Associate

at  Clifford Chance

Job Description

YOUR CAREER EXPERIENCE SO FAR

You will have strong relevant funds tax experience as a lawyer with an established tax practice, probably gained at a City firm, or at an overseas practice in a common law jurisdiction with a highly regarded profile.
In all cases you will have an outstanding academic history and proven first rate legal skills, combined with a strong reputation amongst existing clients for providing commercial solutions and excellent transactional and managements skills.
You should demonstrate strong communication and analytical skills along with a high level of commercial awareness.
You will need to demonstrate that you can thrive in a team with high professional standards and a flexible client-friendly commercial approach. You will have had strong exposure of collaborating with multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary teams.
It is crucial that you can demonstrate an appetite for business development, client relationship management and thought leadership.

WHO WE ARE

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.
Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.
You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.
Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• You will work at the forefront of the market across a diverse range of tax work covering the above matters alongside our market leading private funds teams. The nature of Clifford Chance and our funds and tax practice means that the work necessarily has a strong international flavour; you will routinely be working alongside our international teams (including our US, European and APAC funds teams) across a range of matters.
• The “one team” approach is core to Clifford Chance’s ethos and we work with colleagues around our international network on a daily basis.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• You will be working with a broad range of clients and the Firm’s tax, funds and corporate teams across the globe.
• You will have exposure to work which often involves complex, high value matters that frequently headline in the financial and business press.
• You will have extensive client contact both as part of your daily working routine but will also have the opportunity to develop new client contacts.
• You will be working alongside a number of market leaders in their respective geographies and practice areas.

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