Capio Recruitment
Managing Associate/Legal Director
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Private Client - Managing Associate/Legal Director (6+PQE)
Tier 2 Legal 500
Leeds City Centre | Hybrid Working | Competitive Salary
Hybrid working | 6% pension | Private medical | Discounted parking
An established Tier 2 Legal 500 Private Client practice based in Leeds is looking for a Director-level or Managing Associate lawyer to work alongside the department's Partners on growing the private client offering locally, while running a full private client caseload in their own right.
What You'll Be Doing
- Working closely with Partners and other fee earners in the team
- Running your own caseload while providing supervisory oversight to more junior colleagues across a broad spread of private client work
- Preparing tailored Wills, incorporating trust arrangements designed around inheritance tax planning and asset protection, and overseeing execution formalities
- Advising on international estate planning, including Wills with a cross-border element
- Advising on succession planning for family and owner-managed businesses
- Establishing and administering Trusts and advising Trustees
- Collaborating cross-departmentally
- Liaising with tax accountants and other advisers on HMRC-related compliance, and coordinating with wealth managers and financial planners
- Administering Estates including high-value estates involving business interests and assets held abroad
- Advising beneficiaries on succession matters
- Advising on, and handling registration of, Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Working through technically complex matters requiring research and input from colleagues
- Delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members as needed
- Contributing to business development and networking
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- 6+ PQE handling private client work, including high-value and technically complex matters
- STEP qualified
- A collaborative mindset, equally comfortable working independently
- The ability to support and develop junior colleagues
- Interest in networking and business development events
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