M&A Tax Managing Director - M&A Tax Partner

Tax Managing Director- Tax Partner- Mergers & Acquisitions ("M&A") Tax The Tax Managing Director or Tax Partner of M&A Tax will work in a fast-paced rapidly growing practice and assume a wide set of responsibilities across buy-side and sell-side transactions, divestitures and carve outs working alongside our performance improvement, turnaround and restructuring and investment banking practices to assess a company’s tax risks and opportunities, applying and interpreting income tax law and conducting comprehensive discussions with management and their advisors. Responsibilities

• • Working directly with internal senior personnel and clients to develop comprehensive solutions to complex transactional challenges 
  • Leveraging tax technical knowledge to lead engagement teams in performing buy- and sell-side due diligence and developing tax-efficient acquisition and divestiture structures
  • Conducting, developing, overseeing and reviewing tax due diligence, tax structuring and tax modeling workstreams including but not limited to identification and mitigation of relevant historical and projected tax risks, tax-advantage structuring, optimizing and preserving valuable tax attributes, mitigating tax costs related to cancellation of indebtedness income and worthless stock deduction analysis, conducting Section 382 and transaction cost analyses
  • Managing various technical tax issues dealing with consolidated returns, S Corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies
  • Identifying and analyzing tax risks and opportunities while advising both strategic and private equity buyers and sellers on alternative tax strategies for acquisition, disposition and restructuring of businesses
  • Reviewing and analyzing merger agreements and providing opinion letters
  • Expanding tax research skills through deep exploration of complex technical tax issues across a broad spectrum of tax law
  • Teaching, guiding and coaching junior team members
  • Drafting clear and concise reports outlining key takeaways
  • Creating tax financial models
  • Contributing to marketing and business development efforts
  • Supporting practice development initiatives
  • Collaborating closely with performance improvement, restructuring and investment banking colleagues

Qualifications

• • Strong desire to be a part of and contribute to the growth of a high performing client focused team dedicated to individual and firm level achievements
  • Bachelor’s degree from a top undergraduate program (accounting preferred)
  • 12 plus years of tax advisory experience or a combination of audit, tax and financial due diligence experience within a Big 4 accounting firm
  • CPA, JD, Masters in Taxation or LLM
  • Knowledge of a broad range of corporate tax matters in various industries
  • Proven ability to articulate complex information when providing crucial negotiation insights
  • Technically competent across multiple US federal, international and state income tax disciplines
  • Fundamental working knowledge of all or essentially all non-income based federal, state and foreign tax regimes, including but not limited to indirect, payroll, property and ad valorem taxes
  • Understanding of US GAAP, including the accounting for income tax principles
  • Experience with tax controversy and procedure
  • High degree of maturity with a proven ability to interact with senior executives, private equity firms, lenders, lawyers and management teams  
  • Experience leading other professionals and acting in a manner that motivates, inspires and develops junior team members
  • Proven leader in the delivery of high-quality work that exceeds client expectations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including strong email etiquette 
  • Eagerness to be responsive at all times
  • Proven track-record of success in high pressure, time-constrained environments
  • Top-tier organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Self-starter and entrepreneurial nature
  • Open to travel and work at client site