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

Tax Managing Director - Tax Partner - Mergers & M&A ('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-side 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