"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:

https://www.osborneclarke.com/services/tax/tax-disputes

https://www.osborneclarke.com/lawyers/ian-hyde

https://www.osborneclarke.com/lawyers/jack-prytherch

The work

Recent examples of the team's work includes:

• 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 email angharad.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.

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