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Deals / Transactions Tax DD Specialist – Real Estate Focus
Director, Partner-Track
London Global Law Firm
From £180,000 base + bonus
The opportunity
A rare green field opportunity at a global law firm: build and lead a Transactions (mainly, but not exclusively Real Estate) Deals Due Diligence practice from the ground up, with a clear, sponsored route to partnership.
You'll own the design and delivery of tax due diligence and structuring on real estate transactions, working alongside market-leading corporate and real estate teams with an established deal flow and a warm internal client base from day one. Beyond supporting the firm's transactions, you'll have full backing to win and build your own external client work.
The firm has this service offering elsewhere and it is highly successful; clients have been demanding support in the UK and there are projects where this revenue is currently left to others.
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What you'll do
- Build and run the tax due diligence function to support deal teams.
- Support deal teams and their clients on acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, and fund transactions across a variety of sectors.
- Develop your own practice and client relationships outside the firm's existing deal flow.
- Embed AI tools and technology-led processes into the practice from the outset.
- Shape hiring and strategy as the practice grows.
Who we're looking for
- Experienced Deals Tax / Transactions Tax specialist.
- Director in either a Big 4 firm, law firm, or boutique with deep expertise in tax due diligence (asset and share deals, funds, REITs, cross-border structures for corporates).
- Strong record of business development or clear ambition and credibility to win work.
- Well-formed view on AI tools and how they reshape deals tax delivery.
- Motivated by building something, not inheriting it.
- Serious about partnership.
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What's on offer
- From £180,000 base plus bonus.
- A defined partnership track with sponsorship from the outset.
- Genuine autonomy over how the practice is built and run.
- The platform and brand of a global law firm behind you — in London, at the centre of the European deals market.
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