M&A Tax Managing Director

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

300 North LaSalle Suite 1420 Chicago , IL 60654 US

2024-04-02 2025-07-26 Industry: Accounting / Finance Job Number: 3250

Job Description

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

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    Working directly with internal senior personnel and clients to develop comprehensive solutions to complex transactional challenges
    
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    Leveraging tax technical knowledge to lead engagement teams in performing buy- and sell-side due diligence and developing tax-efficient acquisition and divestiture structures
    
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    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
    
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    Managing various technical tax issues dealing with consolidated returns, S Corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies
    
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    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
    
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    Reviewing and analyzing merger agreements and providing opinion letters
    
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    Expanding tax research skills through deep exploration of complex technical tax issues across a broad spectrum of tax law
    
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    Teaching, guiding and coaching junior team members
    
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    Drafting clear and concise reports outlining key takeaways
    
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    Creating tax financial models
    
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    Contributing to marketing and business development efforts
    
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    Supporting practice development initiatives
    
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    Collaborating closely with performance improvement, restructuring and investment banking colleagues
    

Qualifications

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    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
    
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    Bachelor’s degree from a top undergraduate program (accounting preferred)
    
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    12 plus years of tax advisory experience or a combination of audit, tax and financial due diligence experience within a Big 4 accounting firm
    
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    CPA, JD, Masters in Taxation or LLM
    
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    Knowledge of a broad range of corporate tax matters in various industries
    
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    Proven ability to articulate complex information when providing crucial negotiation insights
    
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    Technically competent across multiple US federal, international and state income tax disciplines
    
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    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
    
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    Understanding of US GAAP, including the accounting for income tax principles
    
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    Experience with tax controversy and procedure
    
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    High degree of maturity with a proven ability to interact with senior executives, private equity firms, lenders, lawyers and management teams
    
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    Experience leading other professionals and acting in a manner that motivates, inspires and develops junior team members
    
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    Proven leader in the delivery of high-quality work that exceeds client expectations
    
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    Excellent written and verbal communication skills including strong email etiquette
    
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    Eagerness to be responsive at all times
    
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    Proven track-record of success in high pressure, time-constrained environments
    
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    Top-tier organizational skills and attention to detail
    
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    Self-starter and entrepreneurial nature
    
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    Open to travel and work at client site
    

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