Tax Lawyer

You’ll join a genuinely friendly and supportive team where you’ll be encouraged to develop your career at Walker Morris.

You’ll be provided with access to quality work for both national and international clients. The Walker Morris tax team provides advice and support to all areas of the firm and this is reflected in the wide variety of work you will exposed to.  Your regular workload will include:

• working on M&A transactions both UK based and cross-border, negotiating documents and helping to structure transactions;
• preparing and advising on a range of incentive schemes from an approved EMI scheme for a start up to stock options and restricted securities offered by international plcs;
• providing advice with real estate transactions, notably in the area of VAT, SDLT and capital allowances; and
• assisting other teams like employment, commercial, construction on the myriad of tax issues which occur in their practice areas.

A role within the Walker Morris tax team represents a great chance for the right person to really get hands on and embrace the opportunities offered.  We are very quick paced department meaning there is plenty of opportunity to hone your skills, get involved in business development and you will be offered plenty of client facing opportunities too.

Click here to find out more about the Tax team at Walker Morris.

Our Award-Winning Sustainable Careers initiative encourages you to develop your career at Walker Morris.

Get in touch if you’re looking to progress your career in a leading full-service firm based outside of London where the decisions about your future are made by those you see and work with – day in, day out.

Why join Walker Morris:

When you’re looking for a job, we know it’s about more than just the role. That’s why we provide the support you need to develop and grow your career. Walker Morris is a top 100 law firm where you don’t have to fit a mould, so you can bring your full self to work and our commitment to a meaningful work life balance means you can take your full-self home again too!

What we offer:

• Hybrid working – we understand work-life balance is important, we are open to discussing your hybrid working preferences.
• Annual Leave – minimum of 25 days per year, increasing to 31 days with length of service. Also – buy/sell holidays up to 5 days per year.
• Bonus Scheme – our annual bonus scheme recognises outstanding contributions to the firm and our ambitions. All solicitors are eligible, subject to meeting the criteria of the scheme with opportunity to earn up 35% bonus.
• Paid Sabbatical Scheme – accrue up to 2 weeks’ sabbatical over a 2-year period, or 4 weeks’ sabbatical over 3 years.
• Pension – saving for retirement? Let us do the hard work for you. We auto-enrol all eligible colleagues into a workplace pension and we contribute a minimum of 5% of annual salary.
• Life Assurance – 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.