About the Organisation
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.
We hold a very high reputation for successfully arguing many landmark cases from quasi-judicial authorities to the Supreme Court of India. We 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 our practice areas are:
The Tax Division advises companies in all areas of tax, including direct and indirect tax. We offer consulting, advisory, litigation, and compliance services. We 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 our 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. We 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 Description
Hiring for Associate – Indirect Tax Litigation for Prayagraj location
Essential Qualification:
Lawyer – with good academic background
1-3 Years experience in indirect tax, GST/Customs
Assisting the client during the course of search, investigation and audits. (required)
Preparing reply to Show cause notice (required)
Meeting with the tax officers for appearances (required)
Preparing tax appeals to be filed at the Joint Commissioner (Appeals), Tribunal – (required)
Assisting seniors before departmental authorities/courts for hearing in medium/heavy matters (required)
Preparing tax appeals to be filed at the Court
Job Profile:
Client service delivery/execution:
Ability to proactively identify and discuss technical issues with clients while being mindful of firm risk issues
Handle tax matters with regard to preparation of submissions, replies to notices, appeals etc., meeting the tax authorities, representation during appeals along with seniors etc.
Executes 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 senior
Networks internally within the peer group and other levels in the firm in order to gain understanding of issues that may impact the clients
Should be capable of mentoring Associates and guiding them on their working
Develops Strong knowledge base:
Stays abreast with the latest development in tax and other laws.
Contributes to the knowledge management activities of the firm.
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