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Location: London

Capability: Tax & Law

Experience Level: Associate/Assistant Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: Legal Services

Contract type: Permanent

Job description

Why you might want to join KPMG Law:

• 
  You want to do great work that matters.
• You can see the advantages of bringing together advice from a connected team of different professionals to help clients grow or change their businesses and navigate challenges.
• You want to be part of an established and truly global legal practice in a leading global professional services firm.
• You are ambitious and are excited by the idea of being a member of a team that will grow significantly.
• You want the opportunity to develop client relationships.
• You want to broaden your experience and become a more rounded professional.
• You want to maintain a sustainable work-life balance.
• You enjoy a challenge.

What KPMG Law is looking for from its lawyers:

• Team players who enjoy working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines
• Approachable people who are keen to develop personally and professionally
• Lawyers with a passion for the law and an understanding of how it works on the ground
• Intellectually curious, open-minded and analytical people, with an eye for detail and pride in their work
• Driven and proactive professionals who deliver a great service to their clients
• Relationship builders who can spot and develop new opportunities both within the KPMG network and externally
• Flexible people who are able to deal with a fluid, changing work environment.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Building and developing positive business relationships within and outside KPMG
• Assessing problems from multiple angles to ensure that our clients have comprehensive commercial law advice to support their decision-making
• Working collaboratively to devise and driving forward creative legal solutions for clients
• Advising clients on the legal aspects of changes to their business models or value chain, whether that’s for growth, embracing digitisation or driving efficiencies
• Supporting clients with the legal implementation of their transformation programmes, including group restructuring, supply chain changes and intragroup documentation
• Helping clients protect against value leakage by drafting and negotiating appropriate contracts to support b operations and trading arrangements with third parties and across its group
• Helping clients create, manage, exploit and protect their intellectual property assets.

Qualifications and Skills:

• The applicant will be a commercial lawyer with experience of advising on commercial legal issues and agreements. The applicant will have experience in contractual drafting and negotiation gained on national and international projects, across a range of commercial areas including:
• consumer law (including online sales)
• supply of goods and services
• manufacturing, distribution and agency
• franchising and licensing
• tax related intragroup arrangements

• The applicant should also understand or a desire to learn and understand wider business issues, such as transfer pricing, VAT and supply chain resilience to be able to review and draft relevant agreements
• Any experience in supporting significant operational and business transformation projects is helpful.
• Applicants who have some but not all of the above experience will still be considered.

Experience and Background:

• The applicant must be a qualified UK lawyer (NQ and above)
• The applicant must be keen to develop and broaden their legal skills to include working on multi-disciplinary projects and being close to the business side of these projects.
• The successful applicant will be a self-starter and a strong performer and team player who is focussed on helping to ensure that the team successfully delivers projects for its clients.
• While consulting appropriately on difficult issues, they must be able to deliver robust and appropriate legal advice and exercise sound judgement.
• An interest in helping to build the team’s business and relationships will benefit the applicant.
• The successful applicant will have experience of working with demanding clients across a wide spectrum of size and activities and will be expert at service delivery. They must be able to demonstrate sound client relationship and business development skills, and a keenness to develop these skills further.
• The successful applicant will be expected to take responsibility for servicing and building part of the existing business of the team.
• The successful applicant will help promote the team’s work through participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publication.
• Experience in some of the following sectors would be considered helpful:
• Consumer / Retail
• Financial services (banking, insurance, investment management, payment services)
• Industrial/manufacturing
• Life Sciences
• Digital infrastructure, including telecoms and data centres

Why Tax & Law at KPMG?

The issues surrounding tax and legal services are constantly evolving, both locally and globally. Which is why you'll find life at KPMG both intellectually stimulating and rewarding. There's also the scale and breadth of what we do – our services span specialisms such as Corporate and Indirect Tax; Expatriate and Private Client Personal Tax compliance and advice; and KPMG Law.