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The Litigation Department

Mishcon de Reya LLP has one of the largest and most comprehensive Dispute Resolution offerings in London; over half of the Firm's lawyers are litigators. We have built a team that covers most major areas of the Dispute Resolution world including: White Collar Crime & Investigations, Tax, Competition and Anti-Trust, International Arbitration, Intellectual Property and Fraud Defense & Business Disputes. Each dispute requires a bespoke solution, sometimes aggressive, sometimes measured. We fight our client's corner: we take ownership of our client's dispute so that we can resolve it as effectively as possible. We fiercely guard our clients' interests.

The Finance and Tax Disputes Group

The Finance and Banking Disputes team is recognised in the market for its top flight financial and regulatory disputes practice. Our lawyers have a deep knowledge of the financial services sector, complex financial products and documentation and financial regulations. For all businesses in the financial services sector, individuals and corporates with disputes involving financial products and documents, and individuals and corporates engaged with overseas or domestic financial services regulatory bodies, the team has the relevant legal and industry expertise to provide strategic advice and achieve our clients' objectives.

Our matters are often high value and multi-jurisdictional. We view litigation as one part of the overall strategy we devise for clients to achieve their commercial objectives and offer clients a significant return on investment. The team has the capability to support that strategy through coordinated cross-border action, injunctive and other urgent relief, freezing orders and worldwide tracing actions.

TheTax Disputes and Investigations teamprovides multi-disciplined legal advice on direct and indirect tax disputes, employment-related taxes and civil and criminal tax investigations.We understand that tax, and specifically the payment of tax, affects every business and individual and navigating HMRC and its processes can be difficult. Our team has direct experience of working within HMRC and can assist our clients in reaching a satisfactory outcome, through both litigation and other methods of dispute resolution. Should clients find themselves facing an aggressive tax collection strategy, our specialist team is often able to secure the correct outcome at an early stage through negotiating with HMRC and/or pursuing litigation.

Skills/Attributes

We are looking for an Associate with an interest in all aspects of commercial litigation, as well as Finance and Banking Disputes, to join our busy and growing team and provide full support to the Partners in case management and business development, while helping to mentor other colleagues. Candidates will ideally have 3+ year of PQE, strong academics, solid experience, and be confident in managing client relationships, workloads and priorities. We are looking for proactive applicants who are ambitious and have lots of drive and enthusiasm. Candidates should be commercial, creative legal thinkers wanting to develop a business, who are able to approach matters both from a legal as well as a commercial perspective. Sound commercial acumen is therefore a necessity, as well as the ability to 'think on your feet'.