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Job Title
Tax Disputes Senior Associate
Closing Date
19-Apr-2024
Department
Tax Disputes
Job Location
London
Role
Lawyers
Description
"Osborne Clarke has a genuinely national and international
practice."- Chambers & Partners
We have an exciting opportunity
for a Senior Associate to join our Tax Disputes team in London.
You will be joining a successful
team and a firm with a collegiate and supportive culture, which
makes it a rewarding place to work.
The practice
Osborne Clarke's tax disputes
practice has been growing since it was started by Ian Hyde in 2019
and bolstered by the recent arrival of partner Jack Prytherch.
The team covers all forms of
(direct and indirect) contentious tax matters, including managing
tax risk, HMRC investigations and tax litigation before the tax
tribunals and higher courts. The practice has enjoyed sustained
growth and has developed a particular reputation in a number of key areas:
Technology sector - the tax
disputes team has won mandates from numerous prominent technology
focused clients, including platforms and often with an
international element;
Financial services sector - the
tax disputes practice is also building up an impressive client
roster in the financial services sector, many of which are
international and cross over into the digital space;
The contingent workforce sector
- the firm has outstanding expertise in tax disputes in this area,
building on the firm's wider pre-eminence in the sector. We are
seeing a significant increase in disputes in this sector with the
increased importance of flexible workforces to employers and
HMRC's focus on enforcement both in this area and the wider gig
economy; and
Tax-based litigation - the
practice is often asked to advise on tax-related litigation
matters, defending major accountancy firms against professional
negligence claims for tax advice.
The team is anticipating further
growth, including litigation work involving cases on important
points of law, which is one of the key drivers behind this opportunity
Find out more about the practice
using the following link:
Advising an accountancy service
company (specialising in providing accountancy advice to personal
service company contractors) in HMRC's investigation into the
application of the Managed Service Company anti-avoidance legislation.
Acting for a FTSE 350 listed
company on HMRC's investigation into a senior executive incentive
scheme involving board level governance issues.
Advising an international
recycling group on a HMRC investigation into transfer pricing
treatment of cross-border supplies and whether exports qualified
for VAT zero rating.
Acting for international
webhosting platform group in relation to an exchange of
information provisions between the UK and India under the OECD
Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax
Matters, and on cross-border tax debt enforcement.
The team
The Tax Disputes team is led by
Chambers rated Ian Hyde (Partner). The team sits within our
Commercial Disputes service line led by Chambers rated Charlie Wedin
(Partner), The UK Commercial Disputes team is made up of over 50
lawyers in total. In London the team comprises 7 Partners, 7
Associate Directors, 3 Senior Associates, 6 Associates and 3 Trainee Solicitors.
Technical skills and experience
The successful candidate will be
working directly with the partners and helping to grow the tax
disputes practice further. You will have a strong academic
background, with excellent verbal and written communication skills,
organisational skills, and attention to detail.
You will have experience working
as a Solicitor or Barrister in tax disputes work. Due to the nature
of the role and the anticipated work available we are looking to
recruit a Senior Associate, however candidates with more or less
experience will be considered.
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 0117 917 3127 or emailangharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com.
Being an inclusive employer is
important to us and we are committed to ensuring every applicant's
recruitment experience is free from unnecessary barriers. If you
have a dis/ability+, to include physical disability, hidden
disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergence and meet
with requirements listed in this job advert, we would be delighted
to offer you a guaranteed interview.
Please note we are not currently
accepting agency CVs for this position. If you would like to make an
application please do so directly.
At Osborne Clarkewe
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.