City Law Firm
Private Client
Associate 5-6PQE
London
This top-tier city law firm advises individuals and businesses on every aspect of the law, and providing and international service. The firm's clients include banks, major businesses and media groups, as well as schools, charities, high net worth entrepreneurs and landed estates. Their clients operate across the world, with activities and assets in multiple jurisdictions. As a result, the majority of the firm's work has an international element.
The firm's Tier 1 Private Client team provide specialist legal advice on the whole spectrum of private and business issues, including trusts, wills, probate and tax. The team are widely recognised their stellar reputation in advising a broad range of high-net-worth and ultra-high- net worth families and individuals to regularly advising trustee companies, entrepreneurs, wealth managers and family offices across the UK and internationally.
The team are looking for an experienced Private Client Senior Associate (5-6 years' PQE) to join their practice. The successful candidate will be expected to work across all areas of private client work, covering both UK and international work. Matters will include:
- Dealing with the administration of high-value and complex estates (including advising on inheritance tax reliefs and dealing with cross-border estates);
- Advising on complex estate planning for clients with a wide range of assets (both in the UK and outside the UK) including drafting wills and documents for lifetime gifting;
- Dealing with the administration of high-value and complex estates (including advising on inheritance tax reliefs and dealing with cross-border estates);
- Preparing lasting Powers of Attorney and Advance Decisions and advising on capacity matters;
- Advising on UK trust structures and drafting trust documents for creation and restructuring;
- Taxation of trusts (predominantly onshore)
The ideal candidate will :
- have excellent private client experience, specifically with high net worth clients and clients with complex property and business interest;
- proven experience of advising executors or administrators of estates and of project-managing multi-faceted probates;
- excellent client facing skills and the ability to nurture existing clients and third party relationships with clients' other advisers;
- the ability to help develop new business and assist in networking events;
- experience in working across different teams within a firm, including working with some or all of property, corporate and litigation colleagues
Please apply as directed or confidentially contact Aidan McAvinue at Search Legal for more information. Alternatively, if this role is not for you, I am working on a variety of other private client opportunities with ranked teams in the City of London so would be interested to talk to any private client lawyer.