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KPMG Law is recruiting an Assistant Manager to support the growth of the data protection team in KPMG Law. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team which works across KPMG providing our clients with data protection solutions.
KPMG Law – Data Protection

Our data protection team works with the different service lines within KPMG to provide clients with complete data protection solutions.

The role will include:

— Legal Advisory
— Data Transfer Agreements
— Drafting policies and procedures
— Supporting clients with the data protection elements of their transformation programmes, including group restructuring, outsourcing, large scale technology programmes


Experience:

The applicant will be a data protection/commercial lawyer with one seat of their training contract including data protection advice and preferably 1 year of data protection experience of advising on compliance with data protection laws including the rules around marketing.

The applicant will have experience in advising clients in the following areas:
— Data protection compliance issues
— GDPR/DPA compliance gap analysis
— Drafting information notices
— Assessment of joint controller status and drafting related data sharing agreements
— Drafting of compliant data protection policies and procedures
— Responding to data subject rights requests
— Preparing for and responding to data breach
— Data transfer/data sharing arrangements
— Liaising with the ICO on behalf of client who have received a complaint from a data subject
— FOIA

Applicants who have some but not all of the above experience will still be considered.


Expertise / Technical role requirements:

— The applicant must be finishing their training contract or a qualified lawyer of up to 2 years PQE
— The applicant must be keen to develop and broaden his/her legal skills to include working on multi-disciplinary projects and being closer to the business side of these projects.
— The successful applicant will be a self-starter and a strong performer and team player who is focussed on helping to ensure that the team successfully delivers projects for its clients. While consulting appropriately on difficult issues, he/she must be able to deliver robust and appropriate legal advice and exercise sound judgement.
— An interest in helping to build the team’s business and relationships will benefit the applicant.
— The successful applicant will have experience of working with demanding clients across a wide spectrum of size and activities, and will be expert at service delivery. He/she must be able to demonstrate sound client relationship and business development skills, and a keenness to develop these skills further.
— The successful applicant will be expected to take responsibility for servicing and building part of the existing business of the team.
— The successful applicant will help promote the team’s work through participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publication.


Experience in some of the following sectors would be considered helpful:

— Financial services (banking, insurance, investment management, payment services)
— Transportation (bus, rail, automobiles, mobility as a service)
— Energy
— Life Sciences
— Digital infrastructure, including telecoms and data centres
— Retail


Skills:

— Building and developing positive business relationships within and outside KPMG
— Assessing problems from multiple angles to ensure that our clients have comprehensive and pragmatic data protection advice to support their decision-making
— Working collaboratively to devise and driving forward creative legal solutions for clients
— Providing our clients with a seamless multi-disciplinary legal implementation service on national and global projects

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The Legal Services Team sits within KPMG Tax. Its establishment flows naturally from KPMG’s long history of successfully delivering multidisciplinary services to clients. Its vision is to be the legal adviser of choice for KPMG’s clients when it comes to their people, corporate structures, internal arrangements, regulatory requirements and disputes with HMRC. KPMG is now regulated by the SRA as a multi-disciplinary practice.


Core corporate, commercial and employment law teams, and a market leading tax litigation team, are already in place. Over the next few years, these teams will grow and Legal Services will expand into other areas of law that fit within its vision and the needs of KPMG’s clients.


KPMG Legal Services is for lawyers who are:


· Team players who enjoy working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines.
· Approachable people who are keen to develop personally and professionally, and to assist with the development of junior team members and build relationships.
· Lawyers with a passion for the law.
· Intellectually curious, open-minded and analytical people, with an eye for detail and pride in their work.
· Driven and proactive professionals who deliver a great service to their clients.
· Relationship builders who can spot and develop new opportunities both within the KPMG network and externally.
· Flexible people who are able to deal with a fluid, changing work environment.


Why you might want to join KPMG Legal Services:


· You can see the advantages of professional advice being provided within a multidisciplinary team.
· You are ambitious and perceive the wealth of opportunities presented by a start-up legal practice in a leading global professional services firm.
· You want the opportunity to develop client relationships and KPMG’s legal services capabilities.
· You are excited by the idea of being a founding member of a team that will grow significantly.
· You want to broaden your experience and become a more rounded professional.
· You want to achieve a sustainable work-life balance.


Role and responsibilities:


You will help the team with the following service offerings:
(i) Early legal and technical input into potential disputes with HMRC.
(ii) Reviewing a variety of ideas and situations and appraising for litigation risk.
(iii) Litigation in the Tax Tribunals, High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and ECJ


This will include:


(i) First drafts of pleadings such as notices of appeal and witness statements.
(ii) First draft correspondence, advice and reports.
(iii) Legal research.
(iv) Case management of ‘group litigation’ cases.
(v) Preparing for hearing including preparing bundles of documents and authorities.
(vi) Instructions to Counsel, attending Conferences and preparing settled notes.
(vii) General litigation support.
(viii) Delegation to junior team members.


Education and qualifications:


The applicant will be a litigation lawyer with experience in litigation and/or tax dealing with commercial clients.
In addition, a successful applicant will have the ability to get up to speed quickly on technical matters and be keen to continue developing his/her legal skills and engage in new areas of work.
The applicant must be able to demonstrate his/her ability to build relationships with across KPMG or with clients. Good relationship building skills and organisation skills are a must.
The successful applicant will help promote the team’s work through participating in team and wider firm events.


Experience Required:


It is expected that the successful applicant will be a qualified solicitor with at least 4 years PQE experience.
They will have experience across a number of taxes and in particular corporate taxes working in real estate and funds.
They must have tax litigation experience (i.e. not just general litigation experience) and previous experience in a similar role with a law firm or Big 4 practice is essential.
They will have experience with and a good understanding of the procedure before the UK Tribunals.

Strong academic, technical, drafting and personal skills are essential.

KPMG Law is seeking a mid-level corporate lawyer to join its expanding team in London to focus on legal solutions for private enterprise clients.


KPMG Law is a disrupter in the legal services industry offering legal advisory services combined with new law and technology driven offerings and multi-disciplinary solutions. Our lawyers have the benefit of being part of an exciting start-up business within a leading global professional services firm.

The successful candidate will have broad experience across M&A, equity investments and joint ventures, equity incentive arrangements and corporate restructurings gained at a city practice and be:
- an entrepreneurial self-starter who is excited by the opportunity to provide multi-disciplinary legal services in a different environment and manner while delivering a great service to clients


- able to understand the legal solution within the wider picture and who is keen to become a more rounded business adviser





- a driven and proactive team player who enjoys working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines and is keen to assist with the development of junior team members





- a relationship builder who can spot and develop new opportunities and client relationships both within the KPMG network and externally





- a good technical lawyer with a solid knowledge of the Companies Act




The role will involve:
- providing corporate legal advice on a broad range of client solutions spanning corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, joint ventures and equity incentive arrangements


- building relationships with other KPMG teams and KPMG clients to develop and provide multi-disciplinary solutions





- project managing and driving projects to conclusion





- Training and mentoring more junior team members




It is expected that the successful applicant will be an English-qualified solicitor with a minimum of 4 years’ PQE experience, gained in the UK at a reputable firm (but applicants with other suitable experience will also be considered). Strong academic, technical, and personal skills are essential.

KPMG Law has a specialist corporate and commercial team that advises on a broad range of corporate, partnership and commercial law in conjunction with KPMG's tax and advisory teams.

The team’s broad remit is broken into three key areas:

(i) deals – including mergers and acquisitions, legal due diligence, transaction services and joint ventures;
(ii) structuring – including distributions, company law advice, restructures, capital reductions, demergers and management incentives;
(iii) specialist legal solutions – including general legal advisory solutions.

The team regularly advises on complex cross-border intra-group reorganisation transactions as well as those with a UK-only element.

We are now looking for an additional paralegal to support the Corporate Legal Services team in our Reading office. You will have previous paralegal experience in the area of corporate law.

The role is very varied with no two days the same. You will be required to manage your time well and be able to balance several pieces of work simultaneously, prioritising appropriately to ensure tight deadlines are met. The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and activities:

• running know your client (KYC) checks;
• drafting engagement letters;
• carrying out company searches and summarising key information in company search reports;
• drafting and managing information requests;
• drafting and amending project management plans (comprising a documents list, timetable and parties list);
• drafting Companies Act 2006 related documentation and other documentation (e.g. including board minutes, share transfer documents, shareholder resolutions etc.);
• drafting and filing of Companies Act 2006 forms, including hand delivering documents to Companies House where necessary;
• designing and delivering training sessions (either alone or with other team members) for the team on set subjects (this is something which each member of the team undertakes in respect of their specialist subject);
• project managing smaller projects including liaising with overseas legal counsel, other advisers and clients;
• co-ordinating the input of overseas legal counsel on transactions;
• assisting with business development activities;
• assisting with the preparation of proposals;
• carrying out legal and other research;
• assisting with know-how projects including summarising know-how and other materials for inclusion in KPMG's knowledge management system;
• assisting with the administration of the training programme; and
• assisting with projects that other team members are working on.
• The role involves working directly with all team members from Assistant Manager to Partner. There is great support in the team, all of whom help with learning and development of other team members through offering advice, providing development points and being open to answer any questions.

Education and qualifications:

The applicant will be an individual with legal experience having worked as part of a corporate and/or commercial legal team. The applicant may possibly have an LPC or similar qualification although this is not essential.

High attention to detail, strong organisational skills, being intellectually curious, and having good teamwork and personal skills are essential.

Experience required:

The role will be varied and you will be required to manage your time well and be able to balance several pieces of work simultaneously, prioritising appropriately to ensure tight deadlines are met.

In addition, a successful applicant will have the ability to get up to speed quickly on technical matters and be keen to continue developing his/her legal skills and engage in new areas of work.

Good relationship building skills and organisation skills are a must along with an ability to communicate effectively with clients, contacts and internal colleagues at all levels as well as excellent written communication skills.

The role involves working directly with all team members from other paralegals through to Partner. There is great support in the team, all of whom help with learning and development of other team members through offering advice, providing development points and being open to answer any questions.

Now more than ever, we need to support our clients to adapt in a rapidly-changing business and legal landscape. Side-by-side, we're reimaging law, working with them to navigate uncertainty - where through disruption, we see possibilities. We're looking for colleagues to join our network of legal professionals who are self-starters, able to drive commercial value, seek opportunity and deliver digitally-driven solutions that help our clients evolve and thrive in a new world.

Our integrated approach allows us to supply rounded legal solutions as we're able to apply our deep industry knowledge and commercial insight from our wider practice - all underpinned by our innovative use of technology.


What KPMG Law is looking for from its lawyers:

• Team players who enjoy working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines
• Approachable people who are keen to develop personally and professionally, and to assist with the development of junior team members
• Lawyers with a passion for the law
• Intellectually curious, open-minded and analytical people, with an eye for detail and pride in their work
• Driven and proactive professionals who deliver a great service to their clients
• Relationship builders who can spot and develop new opportunities both within the KPMG network and externally
• Flexible people who are able to deal with a fluid, changing work environment


Why you might want to join KPMG Law:

• You can see the advantages of professional advice being provided within a multidisciplinary team
• You are ambitious and perceive the wealth of opportunities presented by a start-up legal practice in a leading global professional services firm
• You want the opportunity to develop client relationships and KPMG’s legal services capabilities
• You are excited by the idea of being a founding member of a team that will grow significantly
• You want to broaden your experience and become a more rounded professional
• You want to achieve a sustainable work-life balance

Role & Responsibilities:

• Early Legal Input into Tax Advice – providing our clients with tax advice that has already been reviewed by lawyers
• Implementation of Tax Advice – providing our clients with a simple and cost-effective way of successfully implementing our tax advice
• Review and Rectification of Implementations – reviewing existing structures and helping clients preserve value by rectifying inadequate implementations and operation
• Unwinding Structures – unwinding defunct or unwanted structures
• Investment Advice – providing pension schemes, sovereign wealth funds and high net worth individuals with advice on their investments into hedge and private equity funds


Experience Required

The applicant will be a corporate lawyer with a good range of experience in areas of law such as structuring and reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, funds, debt listings and intra-group financing arrangements, corporate governance, commercial arrangements, share investments and/or the implementation of employee incentive arrangements.


The applicant must have a high level of technical knowledge with regards to UK corporate and contract law. Familiarity with partnership, trust, regulatory, banking and/or insolvency law would be helpful. In addition, a successful applicant will have the ability to get up to speed quickly on esoteric areas and be keen to continue developing his/her legal skills and engage in new areas of work.


The applicant must be able to demonstrate his/her ability to successfully lead transactions (while ensuring that other senior members of the team are kept informed and involved at appropriate times), and to supervise and develop more junior members of the team. Strong project management skills are a must.


The applicant must have good experience of coordinating the provision of advice and the production of complex and interrelated legal agreements and documentation by advisers in several jurisdictions. While consulting appropriately on difficult issues, he/she must be able to deliver robust and appropriate legal advice and exercise sound judgement.


The successful applicant will have significant experience of working with demanding clients across a wide spectrum of size and activities, and will be expert at service delivery. He/she must be able to demonstrate sound client relationship and business development skills, and a keenness to develop these skills further. The successful applicant will be expected to take responsibility for servicing and building part of the existing business of the team.
The successful applicant will help promote the team’s work through participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publication.


Education and qualifications

It is expected that the successful applicant will be a UK-qualified solicitor with between 0- 3 years’ PQE experience, which should have been gained in the UK at a reputable City firm (but applicants with other suitable experience will also be considered). Strong academic, technical, drafting and personal skills are essential.