Tax Junior Associate

**Tax Junior Associate**

**Firm Summary**
- White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work. And why we attract a diverse group of people.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our Firm and it has been recognized with numerous awards and top rankings around the world. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.**Position Summary**-Excited by the challenge of developing and implementing complex tax structures, you should combine an eye for detail with the creativity and confidence to devise innovative solutions. Given the rapid pace of our practice, you will need to be highly organized—comfortable meeting tight deadlines, and producing well rounded tax analyses in a timely fashion.
Both oral and written communication skills will be major assets—enabling you to convey complex information to colleagues and clients in a way that is clear and succinct. A team player with a global mindset, you should be excited by the opportunity to work alongside lawyers across the firm’s international offices and practices. Self-motivated, you will need to display a willingness to take ownership of tasks, and a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset that allows you to anticipate clients’ needs and cooperate to develop tax-efficient solutions that fit their businesses.
Working in a client-facing practice, excellent communication and interpersonal skills will also be significant assets - enabling you to form strong professional relationships, and to explain sophisticated legal concepts in clear, precise language that can be easily understood by non-lawyers. Highly organized and deadlines-driven, you should relish the challenge of delivering outstanding work within the short timeframes our clients expect.

**Our Practice Area**
- The Global Tax Group supports clients by bringing insight to the business and legal intricacies of the full spectrum of international tax matters. The Group is widely recognized for its forward-thinking approach, having handled numerous precedent-setting global firsts.- As an associate in our Luxembourg office, your work will be varied and fast-paced, handling a wide range of cross-border transactional and advisory matters for private equity houses, financial institutions, multinational companies and sovereign wealth funds. From the moment you join, you will be given significant responsibility—undertaking such tasks as coordinating communications within your team and with clients, liaising with foreign counsel, stress-testing tax structures, verifying Luxembourgish tax summaries and reviewing due diligence reports.- A fast-paced practice with a high turnover of matters, the workload can be intense but is always rewarding—especially in terms of the excellent opportunities for professional development. You will often be working in international, multidisciplinary teams—learning from colleagues within the Global Tax Group, and leading lawyers across practices as varied as M&A, Capital Markets and Real Estate.- From the moment you join us, you will be working directly with—and learning from—partners and associates within our group, and interacting with colleagues across the firm’s international offices and practice groups. We believe in giving all our associates significant responsibility, and providing them with client experience and opportunities for professional development at the earliest possible opportunity. Given the strong cross-border dimension to our work, you will also be interacting regularly with lawyers across our global offices and travelling to international destinations as required.**Qualifications and Skills**
- Clear path of qualification for an EEA Bar
- 6-24 months of trainee experience in a top-tier international law firm
- Strong background in tax law in Luxembourg
- Fluent in English and French
- Commercial and business awareness
- Ability to see the big picture
- Outstanding communication and negotiation skills
- Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure whe