We are flexible on location, this role can be based from our Manchester, Nottingham or Birmingham office.
Our Tax & Share Incentives team is recognised in Chambers and Legal 500, and currently comprises of a team of nine, including two Partners. The Tax & Share Incentives team is based in our Birmingham and Nottingham offices, although the team works with and provides support to other teams in all of our offices across the country (but doesn’t currently provide Irish tax advice to our Dublin office). The Tax team acts for a broad range of clients across the private, public and third sectors, with clients ranging from individuals to multi-national corporates and large public sector bodies.
The role will involve work in one or more of the following areas, depending on experience:
Corporate tax, including tax legal support on share and asset sales and purchases
Employee share incentives, and employment tax, including legal drafting and technical advice
Advice on real estate tax issues, including SDLT (technical advice and compliance) and VAT
Providing support and advice on various other tax issues as they arise, including stamp duty
Excellent legal drafting and research/analysis skills: able to provide clear, concise, and commercially relevant solutions, explaining/advising succinctly on difficult and complex areas
Keeping up to date with legal issues and developments (both HMRC guidance and legislation)
Desirable: experience of drafting and negotiating tax covenants and warranties on share sales and purchases, and of dealing with stamp duty on share purchases
Desirable: experience of drafting and advising on employee share incentives (including EMI)
Knowledge and experience of advising on VAT in relation to property transactions, and knowledge of general principles of VAT, CGT and corporation tax preferred, but training and support will be provided as required
As part of the Tax & Share Incentives team, you’d be expected to have the following skills and experience:
Flexible, focused, and comfortable with working closely with other teams across our offices
Attention to detail tempered by a commercial approach
Willing to spend time in our other offices for meetings and/or training