The Department

The Remuneration and Incentives team sits with the Employment department at Mishcon de Reya but also works very closely with the Corporate department, especially on transactional matters and on early-stage business support. (We therefore don't mind if you qualified in a Corporate, Employment or Tax department previously, provided you have the relevant experience in relation to advice on reward matters.)

As a firm, Mishcon has grown significantly in recent years, organically and through acquisitions and our current recruitment needs are based on further growing and building up additional capacity to support the very varied client base.

We do not segregate our team into those who face into M&A deal transactions and those who support other advisory work. Instead we've a cohesive team of experienced experts who enjoy working across the full variety of our service capability.

Our team is based in our London office but supports clients nationally and internationally.

Our work

We provide wide-ranging tax and legal advice support to companies, including: designing, drafting and implementing a full suite of statutory and bespoke equity incentives and cash-based bonus plans for employees, NEDs and consultants. We support employers in relation to de-risking and optimising remuneration arrangements and supporting evolution of reward planning as a business scales in size and as it expands globally. We provide employer support through the hire to retire/fire lifecycle, including aligning award terms with applicable governance requirements and crafting on-boarding offers and termination packages.

We do not only work for employers. Our top tier employment practice is often instructed by individual executives, sometimes in high profile and contentious matters. Our incentives team will support and advise in relation to the equity incentives elements of the compensation arrangements, frequently adding value by helping to negotiate more favourable outcomes for our clients.

We ensure we understand our clients' objectives and aims (near-term and longer-term too) and work with them to identify, design and implement remuneration and incentive solutions that are most appropriate for their needs and circumstances.

Our clients

We advise businesses across all sectors, including entertainment, life-sciences, technology, fashion, energy and private equity.

We advise private and quoted businesses of all sizes, whether headquartered in the UK or abroad, including FTSE listed companies, global private and family-owned businesses, high growth entrepreneurial businesses, private equity backed companies and employee-owned businesses.

We also advise management teams on their equity arrangements, including in relation to market practice and trends and we also support individual executives and non-executives (including non-resident directors and those who are globally mobile).

Further information regarding our department can be found on the Mishcon website here.

Skills/Experience

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a highly reputable Incentives team. Prospective candidates will demonstrate entrepreneurial flair and gravitas in order to flourish in our dynamic working environment. In addition to a strong academic background, candidates will have excellent technical skills (including good understanding of the UK tax aspects of typical award arrangements) with a keen eye for detail.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a pre-requisite as are organisational and top-rate client care skills.

There is a high level of responsibility from the outset, so our team are naturally self-motivated, enthusiastic and possess a positive attitude towards the challenges and opportunities of carrying and managing a diverse and busy caseload. Successful candidates will need to be able to inspire the trust and confidence of clients and senior colleagues, with a real focus on building long lasting relationships. Candidates will be creative legal thinkers who are able to approach matters both from a legal as well as a commercial perspective.

Candidates should also possess a willingness to actively develop their own experience and knowledge and, in time, practice and profile, by undertaking business development activities on behalf of the team, both internally and externally. We're looking for candidates between newly qualified level and up to three years' PQE and we are committed to finding the right individual who is looking to carve out a fantastic and varied career for themselves as part of our supportive and forward-thinking team.

Attributes

• Demonstrable passion for employee incentives and share plans work.
• NQ-3 years PQE gained at a reputable law firm.
• Solid background working within employee incentives and share plans.
• Experience of handling both advisory matters such as the design and implementation of incentive structures as well as assisting with corporate transactions (including take-privates, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs).
• A strong knowledge and understanding of tax relating to employee share plans and employment-related matters.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Excellent writing skills, with strong drafting abilities.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload, undertaking a truly client facing role.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels, both internally and with clients.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Able to coach and supervise trainees, nurturing their career potential.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with colleagues, clients and external organisations.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Pro-active and takes initiative.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy , our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business , also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose , a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management , MDR Cyber , MDR Discover , MDR One , MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx . Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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