Senior Associate

PQE: 5 years +
Term: Permanent
Department: Private Client & Tax
Location: London
The firm

Boodle Hatfield has been providing practical advice to businesses and individuals for over 300 years. Our clients come from a wide range of sectors, both in the UK and internationally, and include some of the most well-established owner-managed businesses and property companies as well as fast-growing entrepreneurial enterprises and ultra-high net worth families. Our chief priority is helping our clients achieve their commercial objectives, whatever form their business takes.

Our approach is to become the long-term trusted adviser to leading wealth creators and owners as well as their commercial and investment enterprises. Having a holistic view of our clients' structures and affairs means we can leverage this to provide the most appropriate and commercial advice to them. This approach has enabled us, throughout our 300-year history, to help our clients successfully navigate the continually changing and sometimes challenging markets in which they operate.

Our history remains at the heart of who we are and we value the longstanding relationships we have nurtured with clients over centuries. We balance this with a modern and agile approach and entrepreneurial attitude which enables us to attract and service new clients in existing and emerging areas and regions that complement our business. Whether it’s advice on property, business or private wealth issues, the firm provides the right guidance to enable its clients to succeed today and in the future.

The Firm operates through five departments - Private Client, Property, Corporate, Litigation and Family – and has a strong focus on key sectors including Arts and Luxury assets; Middle East, Family Offices, Family Businesses and Entrepreneurs from offices in London (Bankside and Mayfair) and Oxford.

The department

Boodle Hatfield is recognised as being one of the leading Private Client firms in the country.  We have a long history of advising private clients, both UK and international, and this is a core part of our business.  The Private Client and Tax Department advises clients with a diverse asset base, including international businesses, luxury assets (art, yachts, aircraft and classic cars) and traditional landed estates.  We specialise in giving proactive estate planning, trusts, commercial and wealth protection advice that helps our clients preserve and enhance their wealth, whilst also ensuring compliance and reputational integrity.  Our focus is on providing a very personal service to clients with complex needs.

As a result of continued growth we are looking for a bright, motivated and enthusiastic Senior Associate to join our London office and be part of a friendly, busy and highly successful team.  We seek candidates who have trained at reputable City or West End Firms who have 5 or more years of experience in a private client or tax department. 

Summary of role

Your experience must include advice on UK taxation, particularly for non-UK domiciled clients and international families. You should have experience in advising on complex wealth holding and family office structures and associated tax issues. Any knowledge and experience of trusts and wealth structures in other jurisdictions in both common or case law is preferable.

The successful candidate would join the firm in a key role to work in a growing practice, where they would be expected to lead and supervise matters. The firm would support this individual with growth of business and practice.

Skills and experience
  • Excellent academics, minimum 2.1 and A,B, B at A Level
  • Strong technical skills and an ability to explain complex taxation matters in an accessible way
  • Team player
  • Excellent communication skills
  • A proactive self-starter with plenty of drive and initiative
  • Ability to run sizeable projects
  • Ambitious, with a commitment to develop technical skills and the profile of the international team as a whole
  • Preferably, STEP membership
Equal opportunities

Boodle Hatfield is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment through its inclusive and supportive environment. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the Firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.  We are fully committed to a working environment in which all people can excel.