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Job Title Corporate Tax Associate/Senior Associate Closing Date 30-Sep-2022 Department Corporate Tax Job Location Bristol; London; Reading Role Lawyers Description "Osborne Clarke's Corporate Tax team is 'one of the best in the business'" Legal 500 UK We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Corporate Tax team and be based in any of our UK offices (London, Reading or Bristol). We will also consider applications at Associate level. Osborne Clarke has an established, highly regarded and growing Tax Group both in the UK and internationally. In the UK the nine partner Tax Group covers four teams - Corporate Tax, Incentives, Private Wealth and Tax Litigation. You will be joining a successful firm with a collegiate and supportive culture, which makes it a rewarding place to work. As well as being happy to consider candidates in different locations we also welcome applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly in terms of their working pattern. We are pleased to consider candidates wishing to work part-time to a minimum of 3 days per week or equivalent hours. The practice Our Corporate Tax team is a strong, four partner team which operates as one team with lawyers currently based in London and Bristol. As one team spread across offices, we are used to being agile and support flexible working practices. We also work closely with colleagues within Osborne Clarke including our international offices and especially from our private equity, funds, corporate, real estate, projects, and banking teams. The team enjoys a varied and quality work load for mainly City-based and international clients. We provide our clients with tailored UK and cross-border tax advice that helps them meet their business objectives and our work ranges from stand-alone tax advisory mandates to transaction linked advice. We undertake complex tax structuring mandates particularly for funds, real estate, private equity and corporate clients. Our reputation is for giving technically excellent advice that is commercial and user-friendly regardless of whether we are providing strategic support or working under pressure on a transaction. The team is pro-active and forward looking, an approach which generates significant advisory work for the team and allows team members to develop specialisms in areas of interest. We seek to build strong and long lasting relationships with clients and colleagues. We are closely aligned to Osborne Clarke's sector and transformation strategies and particularly active, with strong client relationships, within the areas and sectors of technology, media and communications; real estate and infrastructure; financial services; and healthcare and life sciences. Find out more about our Tax Group and the clients of Osborne Clarke using this link: The team The Corporate Tax team is currently made up of 4 Partners, 3 Associate Directors, 4 Senior Associates, 2 Associates, 1 Trainee Solicitor, 1 Solicitor Apprentice and a dedicated Knowledge Lawyer. We work as one team, offer an excellent training programme and support for external study and actively support each team member's career development. Our approach ensures our lawyers are technically excellent and have rewarding careers within a collegiate working environment. The work Our clients include high-profile publicly listed companies, management teams, investment funds, family owned businesses, real estate investors and developers. Some examples of the deals we've recently advised on that are in the public domain and which can be viewed on our website are as follows: We advised Notonthehighstreet and its management team on the sale of the company to growth equity firm Great Hill Partners; We advised, LDC, and the Plimsoll Productions management team on the sale of a majority interest in Plimsoll Productions to ITV plc; We provided structuring tax advice and transaction support to long standing private equity client, Tenzing, on its investment in MetaCompliance, a market-leading cybersecurity awareness training and compliance platform; We advised growth investor Synova Capital on the buy-out of JM Glendinning Group Limited, a specialist broker operating within the commercial lines insurance market; We provided tax structuring advice and transactional support to leading Bristol developer, Cubex with backing by Fiera Capital, in relation to Grainger's acquisition of a forward funded build to rent development in Bristol; We provided indirect tax advice and transactional support to Vistry Partnerships (formerly Galliford Try Partnerships) on the development agreement for Meridian One, the first phase of the a 20-year regeneration programme led by the London Borough of Enfield; We advised Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust in the set up and funding of Nordic Renewables with a €3.5m investment; We continue to act for long standing client, Foresight, and recently acted on its solar development joint venture with Island Green Power; We advised KKR (in joint venture with Mirastar) on their first UK acquisition for KKR's Core+ strategy for Real Estate. KKR and Mirastar acquired four UK logistics assets in Harlow for £160m from TPG, a leading global alternative asset management firm; and We have advised on the acquisition of a majority interest in Fore Freedom Holdings B.V., a fibre-to-the-premises network business in the Netherlands, from funds managed by Ancala Partners. Technical skills and experience The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience gained from working within a transactional and/or advisory tax practice. They will have strong technical abilities and be able to demonstrate their understanding of UK tax rules and structures. We encourage applications from both candidates with broad technical expertise and those who may be a specialist in one or more of the areas within our the practice areas noted above. At Senior Associate level we would expect a candidate to evidence their ability to manage matters and to act as lead fee earner on transactional mandates. Due to the nature of the work and the current team needs, we are ideally looking to appoint an Senior Associate. We will also consider an Associate with recent relevant experience. Your career development Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with: clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress; high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure; thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues; robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure. Salary and benefits We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. For more information or to apply At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the recruitment team on . Osborne Clarke is an inclusive working environment and values diversity in its workforce. Salary and benefits We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits . For more information or to apply At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Emily Webb in the recruitment team on or . At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of our people: for example, we're signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people. Being an inclusive employer is important to us. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer. Osborne Clarke is a Living Wage Employer, so we're committed to paying everybody in our business enough to live on and to enable them to save for the future. We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application, interview process or when working with us, please let us know.