Associate/senior Associate, Corporate Tax

**About Herbert Smith Freehills**

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

**The Opportunity**
- Work in a market leading international practice, launching our Luxembourg office with high-calibre fee earners in a collegiate and entrepreneurial "start up" environment.
- Regular collaboration with our international network in addition to working hand-in-hand with the Luxembourg Funds and Corporate teams.
- Advising on the tax aspects of transactions, real estate deals, mergers and acquisitions, project financing, structured finance, securitizations, corporate restructuring, and intellectual property.
- Role-specific - the opportunity to advise on a wide range of transactions, including in relation to the taxation of M&A often with a strong emphasis on cross border deals, corporate restructuring, energy taxation (including upstream work), equity and debt capital markets, finance, UK real estate, projects, funds and private equity.
- Responsibilities will vary depending on level of qualification and experience to date; our culture is to reward ability and enthusiasm with responsibility early, and our associates are encouraged to adopt a client facing role.
- Support the firm and others - extend effective relationships across the global network; contribute to the development of team members; uphold the firm’s values; contribute to the firm’s initiatives; take steps to cultivate an excellent reputation and profile in the market and internally; attend marketing/industry events and draft or help prepare articles, precedents and know-how materials; lead the development and delivery of training and presentations.

**Key internal relationships**:
Supervising lawyer, other group partners, solicitors/associates, trainees/graduate solicitors, paralegals, secretarial staff

**Key external relationships**:
Clients, peers, contacts, other firms and professions (eg financial advisers, intermediaries, experts and local lawyers)

**Practice group/team**
- Global tax practice_

Our global tax group has an in-depth understanding of the tax and commercial issues facing clients in the current economic climate, and lawyers in the team draw on their longstanding relationships with those clients to devise innovative and workable solutions to their problems. We act for some of the world’s pre-eminent companies, organisations and investment banks on a wide range of direct and indirect tax issues, providing transactional tax advice all over the world as an integral part of the transaction team. In addition the team also advises on tax disputes.

We have long been recognised for tax expertise, in an advisory and transactional capacity, in a number of specialist fields including: corporate M&A; real estate (including REITS), energy (including up-stream oil and gas) and infrastructure; insurance; investment funds and asset management; TMT and outsourcing; corporate rescue and restructuring, and finance.
- Recent Matters_
- Nexity on the acquisition of a 55% stake in the capital of the Angelotti group, the regional leader in property development and development in Occitanie.
- OneWeb in its proposed combination with Eutelsat Communications, a listed French company that is one of the largest satellite operators in the world
- Tryg on a consortium £7.2 billion bid for RSA Insurance.
- Bharti Airtel on its US$1 billion acquisition of a 90% stake in OneWeb Limited, the US-based company that builds a constellation of satellites to enable global broadband access.
- Sky on its £30 billion offer by Comcast; its £18.5 billion recommended takeover by 21st Century Fox; and its £7 billion acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland.
- Capital & Counties on its recommended £3.5 billion all-share merger with Shaftesbury plc.

**Primary Objectives**:

- Deliver excellent client service and manage and deliver discrete pieces of legal work.
- Build a solid foundation of commercial and legal expertise within a chosen area of law and strengthen relationships with clients, frequently acting as a direct point of contact.
- Be responsible for some management and delegation of work to and support of junior colleagues.
- Play an active role in the life of the team.

**Qualifications, skills and experience**:

- Ability and drive to work o