Senior Associate - Private Client (Advisory)

Location:  

London, GB

Department or practice area:  Private Client

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition. 

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Private Client  team, with the addition of a Senior Associate - Private Client (Advisory).

Meet the team

Our Private Client Advisory team is renowned for its work with ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, trustees, and family offices, advising on complex domestic and international matters. The team specialises in UK and cross-border tax and estate planning, succession strategies across generations, and the structuring of wealth through trusts, corporate entities, and family governance frameworks. They are also highly experienced in navigating international tax regimes, transparency requirements, and advising clients with US connections.

The team is led by Damian Bloom, Head of UK Private Client, who focuses on long-term planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals, and Rachel Davison, who brings particular expertise in US-related matters, including voluntary disclosures and HMRC enquiries. Together, they lead a collaborative and forward-thinking team that delivers strategic, high-touch advice to some of the world’s most sophisticated clients.

The opportunity for you

The senior associate will work principally with partners and associates within the Private Client advisory team. They will advise and work on a range of private client matters.

Key responsibilities

In this Senior Associate role, you’ll be at the heart of some of the most complex and rewarding work in private client advisory. You’ll advise on inheritance tax and cross-border estate planning, help clients navigate residence and domicile rules, and guide them through pre-immigration strategies. Your day-to-day will include drafting Wills and managing estates, advising non-UK domiciled individuals, and overseeing trust administration and taxation. You’ll work on sophisticated wealth structuring solutions and support clients through evolving tax regimes, transparency requirements, and Court of Protection matters. It’s a role that blends technical challenge with meaningful client impact.

Knowledge, skills and experience

We’re looking for someone with proven experience in Private Client advisory work, particularly with UHNW clients and US-exposure. You’ll bring:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical and drafting ability
• Commercially minded with the ability to grow client relationships
• High levels of client contact and responsibility for client files
• Strong academic background and technical expertise
• A commitment to delivering exceptional client service

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week) 
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata). 
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child). 

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available. 

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation.  We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team.  We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.