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About:
Founded by Shri V. Lakshmikumaran and Shri V. Sridharan, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan has been a leading law firm in India since 1985. With 14 offices and over 400+ professionals specializing in corporate & commercial laws, dispute resolution, taxation, and intellectual property, LKS is well-known for its high ethical standards, quality work, and transparency in all its business dealings.
They hold a very high reputation for successfully arguing many landmark cases from quasi-judicial authorities to the Supreme Court of India. They have 35+ years of experience representing clients’ interests in over 50,000 tax disputes before various forums like appellate bodies, DGFT, Tribunals, High Courts, and over 2000 cases before the Supreme Court of India.
Few of their practice areas are: The Tax Division advises companies in all areas of tax, including direct and indirect tax. They offer consulting, advisory, litigation, and compliance services. They handle cases in all areas of taxation – GST, Customs, Income-tax, Special Economic Zones, Foreign Trade Policy, Transfer Pricing, and International Trade.
The General Corporate practice handles a company’s entire life cycle, from advice on inception, incorporation and structuring, contracts, and regulatory compliances to corporate governance and mechanisms for transparency and accountability. The multidisciplinary team ensures their clients are compliant legally and commercially.
The Intellectual Property Team serves global businesses to hold and enforce intellectual property rights by assisting in filing, prosecution, registration, licensing, valuation, and defending rights against infringement. They offer opining on patentability, patenting, filing, prosecution, pre and post-grant opposition, freedom-to-operate, due diligence, patent watch, evolving effective patent strategy, trademark registration and protection, anti-trust, plant variety protection (PVP) and licensing of copyright to name a few.
Role:
Associate
Area:
Indirect Taxation (GST/Customs – Litigation/Advisory)
Location:
Bengaluru
Qualifications:
- CA or LLB from a reputed Law School with a strong academic track record.
- Prior experience in Indirect Tax is must either during CA articleship or law internships
- Must possess excellent communication and drafting skills.
- Experience: 0-2 years of experience in any of the following: GST Litigation (Only Lawyers), GST Advisory (Both CAs as well as Lawyers), Customs (Only Lawyers)
Responsibilities:
Client service delivery/execution
- Ability to proactively identify and discuss technical issues with clients while being mindful of firm risk issues
- Handle tax matters concerning the preparation of submissions, replies to notices, appeals, etc., meeting the tax authorities, representation during appeals along with managers etc.
- Ability to execute the work on a multiple client base.
- Assumes near independent responsibility for smaller clients
- Develops rapport with middle layers of client management
- Develops commercial acumen
- Stays abreast of firm-wide and competitor activities and general business trends
- Brings value to the client and manager by applying this knowledge in delivering solutions to clients.
- Networking & Identification of opportunities.
- Begins to identify new opportunities for existing clients and communicates to the manager
- Networks internally within the peer group and other levels in the firm to gain an understanding of issues that may impact aspects with his clients
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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