Tax & Succession Associate or Senior Associate

Tax & Succession Associate or Senior Associate (6+ PQE)

Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid Working)
Type: Full-time

The Opportunity

Our client is a highly regarded professional services firm with an outstanding reputation for advising high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurial families, landed estates, rural businesses, trustees, and charitable organisations on complex legal and tax matters.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Tax & Succession Lawyer to join a specialist private client team based in Edinburgh. This role offers exposure to high-quality, often complex work involving succession planning, trusts, estate administration, asset protection, and tax planning for affluent individuals and families.

Working as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will advise clients on a broad range of personal and family wealth matters while liaising with specialists across property, corporate, employment, family law, charities, and dispute resolution to deliver integrated advice.

Key Responsibilities

• Advising individuals and families on estate and succession planning matters.
• Providing guidance on trusts, asset protection structures, and wealth preservation strategies.
• Managing estate administration matters and related legal documentation.
• Building and maintaining strong, trusted client relationships.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across a range of legal and professional disciplines.
• Delivering practical, commercially focused advice with discretion and empathy.

About You

Applications are welcomed from candidates who have:

• A minimum of 6years' post-qualification experience in private client, tax and succession
• Scottish qualification preferred, although candidates qualified in England & Wales will also be considered.
• Relevant experience within the tax advisory sector may be considered, even where candidates do not hold legal qualifications.
• Strong technical and practical knowledge of tax and succession planning matters for high net-worth clients
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• A proactive, diligent, and commercially aware approach.
• The ability to manage a varied caseload with an appropriate level of autonomy and sound judgement.

Professional Development

The successful candidate will ideally be a full STEP member or working towards STEP qualification. Support and funding for relevant professional studies will be provided where appropriate.

What's on Offer

• High-quality and intellectually stimulating client work.
• Exposure to complex private client and succession planning matters.
• A supportive, collaborative, and collegiate culture.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Clear opportunities for long-term career progression within a respected and established team.