Irwin Mitchell
Senior Associate/Legal Director- High Net Worth and International Private Client (6397)
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We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it’s personal or business, we understand that everyone’s situation is different. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
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Join Our Award-Winning High Net Worth and International Private Client Team
Advising on complex, high-value tax, trust and estate matters, we partner with an established client base of HNW and UHNW individuals, families, family offices, and fiduciary service providers who rely on us for strategic, long-term guidance.
Our Team Focuses on Two Key Areas:
International Tax, Succession & Asset Structuring
- Delivers sophisticated cross-border tax and succession planning.
- Recognized for strong relationships with leading advisers across major international finance centres.
- Advises on residence and domicile planning, international family governance, wealth preservation, asset protection, and succession strategies, often involving multiple jurisdictions.
Tax & Business Wealth Planning for Entrepreneurs
- Works closely with entrepreneurs, business owners, and wealth creators.
- Helps them navigate personal tax issues, business succession, liquidity events, and long-term wealth structuring.
- Clients value our ability to provide commercially focused advice that protects and preserves wealth across generations.
What You'll Be Doing
As a senior member of the team, you will:
- Lead on complex and high-value matters, acting as a trusted adviser to an impressive client base.
- Build strong relationships with intermediaries and referral networks.
- Collaborate closely with partners and colleagues across the firm.
- Bring together specialist expertise to deliver strategic solutions for clients with sophisticated and often international requirements.
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Alongside delivering exceptional client work, you will:
- Play an important role in the development of the practice.
- Supervise and mentor junior lawyers.
- Share technical knowledge.
- Contribute to thought leadership.
- Support business development initiatives.
- Help identify opportunities for innovation and growth.
This is a role for someone who enjoys combining technical excellence with client relationship management, team leadership, and commercial thinking, whilst helping shape the future success of a leading private client practice.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for an experienced private client lawyer with strong tax expertise and a genuine passion for advising high-net-worth individuals, families, entrepreneurs, and business owners on complex wealth and succession matters.
You'll Bring:
- Significant experience advising on private client, tax, trust, and succession planning matters.
- Strong technical capability and the ability to deliver clear, pragmatic advice on complex legal and tax issues.
- Experience leading substantial client matters and managing multiple stakeholders across often complex and multi-jurisdictional projects.
- The ability to build trusted adviser relationships with clients, professional contacts, and referral sources.
- A track record of developing and maintaining strong internal and external networks.
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or developing junior lawyers and contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
- Commercial awareness and an understanding of profitability, pricing, matter management, and the importance of delivering value to clients.
- A proactive approach to business development, including networking, profile raising, thought leadership, and identifying opportunities to grow client relationships and win new work.
- Strong judgement, risk awareness, and an ability to balance technical excellence with commercial and practical outcomes.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage effectively with sophisticated clients, advisers, and senior stakeholders.
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK's leading International Private Client teams and work on intellectually stimulating, often multi-jurisdictional matters for a sophisticated global client base.
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- You'll be part of a collaborative and ambitious team that combines technical excellence with a strong commercial outlook.
- In return, you'll have the opportunity to take a leading role in complex client work, contribute to the growth and development of the practice, strengthen your profile in the market, and further develop your career within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
Benefits Include:
- 28+ days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
- Generous and flexible pension schemes.
- Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
- Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
- A wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace.
- Flexible by Choice programme which gives colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team, and client requirements.
- Ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024.
Our Commitment
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity, and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment, and Our Pro Bono.
Employment Screening Process
As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s onboarding process, all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity, thereby protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners, and other stakeholders.
- We carry out pre-employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record, and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.
- The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
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