Incentives - Junior Associate

Who we are We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise. Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. We are looking for an enthusiastic and commercial Incentives lawyer to join our London Incentives team. We are interested in hearing from you if you are a NQ keen to qualify into Incentives or a Junior Associate with post-qualification experience within a recognised Incentives practice in a law firm, accountancy firm, consultancy firm or in-house. We are far more than a traditional "share plans" team and cover a full range of remuneration and incentives work looking at legal, regulatory, tax and governance issues as well as reputational risk. We are a market leading team ranked 'Tier 1' in legal directories both in the UK and globally. We have a strong and globally diverse client base including global quoted companies, large private companies and private equity houses and their investee companies. we focus on standalone advisory projects around 50% and supporting on strategic transactions around 50%. design, drafting and implementation of all types of discretionary and all-employee incentives plans; managing legal, regulatory and tax advice on global incentive plans and remuneration arrangements; say on pay" and director remuneration reports/policies); advice on remuneration regulation (e.g. financial service sector remuneration); advice on corporate governance, regulatory and tax issues affecting incentives and remuneration; employment tax advice; the remuneration aspects of public and private M&A, IPOs, capital raisings and other corporate transactions. You will be a NQ keen to qualify into Incentives who has done a seat in Incentives during your training contract or relevant post qualification experience in Incentives. Strong academic history and legal skills are important. Equally as key is enthusiasm, commerciality and a real desire to help develop our team further. are commercial and innovative in the solutions they deliver to clients; are good at fostering relationships with clients. From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and develop your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning. Hybrid working This role follows our 'balanced' hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow, you will be supported to work in a hybrid way with the expectation of working from the office for a minimum of 50% of your time. When you join Clifford Chance, you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial, wellbeing, lifestyle, and family friendly benefits. At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment. We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.