| Reference Number: |
PM29/07/004CLJ |
| Practice Area: |
Employment
Pensions
Tax
Employee Benefits |
| Experience Level: True |
3 - 6 years PQE |
| Vacancy Type: |
Solicitors |
| Area/City: |
Manchester |
| Salary: |
Negotiable |
| Contract Type: |
Permanent |
| Hours: |
Full Time |
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We are currently looking to recruit a full time Share Plans Associate with around 5 years post qualification experience to join our Manchester Share Plans team. Job Description Brief
We are currently looking to recruit a full time Share Plans Associate with around 5 years post qualification experience to join our Manchester Share Plans team, working closely with partners in Manchester and Leeds. The core requirement is good all-round share plans knowledge, including transactional experience, with excellent technical knowledge and an eye for detail.
The Team
The Tax Group has 2 teams - Tax and Share Plans.
The Tax team has 9 partners, 1 legal director and 14 lawyers based in 4 offices - London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.
The Share Plans team is made up of 3 partners, share plans specialists and tax team members at various levels of qualification who work on share plans for part of their time. We have a dedicated PSL resource. The team is nationally rated. Its core practice operates out of Leeds and Manchester, advising clients throughout the country and internationally.
All our teams work on a genuinely national basis. This national team ensures strength and depth across all areas and enables junior members of the team to be exposed to a wide variety of work and more experienced lawyers to specialise with the support of a large team. The fee earning team is supported by a partner-led PSL team of 3, ensuring know how is developed and communicated across the practice.
Background
Pinsent Masons has a market leading tax practice offering City quality work inside and outside of London. We regularly work for listed companies, foreign owned companies, public sector bodies, institutional investors and banks in maximising the tax effectiveness of all types of commercial practice.
Corporate Tax
This is a core area of our practice providing tax advice on corporate, property and commercial structures and transactions for both our own clients and those of the firm's corporate, property and projects groups. The work includes restructuring and demergers, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, funding transactions, outsourcing and private equity/fund investments. We often add value by providing integrated tax and share plans advice at the structuring stage of a transaction.
Share Plans
Our market leading share plans practice not only advises on the bespoke design and drafting of all forms of share plans, but also on the associated financing, corporate governance and communication of plans. We cover both UK and international aspects – we are founder members of the Global Equity Organization (GEO) and have a network of international contacts.
The Candidate Required
As mentioned above in the Brief, the ideal candidate will have good all-round share plans knowledge, including transactional experience. They will have trained in a law firm with a well-established share plans practice. They will have excellent technical knowledge and an eye for detail but, just as importantly, a practical and commercial approach and an outgoing and proactive attitude that will help us develop our business.
A candidate located between Manchester and Leeds would be ideal, but most important is the willingness to travel to either office and throughout the UK as and when the need arises.
The candidate must be sufficiently senior and have confidence to work without close everyday supervision as the Manchester partner will not always be in that office, although the remaining group partners will always make time available to answer questions, provide a second opinion or help with a difficult issue when the need arises.
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