Associate: Tax - Transactional

4-8 yrs required

Full-time

No

Job Title: Associate: Tax - Transactional - Americas

White & Case is seeking a mid-level to senior-level tax associate to join their growing renewable energy and energy transition practices in the United States. The successful candidate should have experience with renewable energy tax credits, project finance, and partnership and M&A transactions, preferably including negotiating and documenting tax equity transactions.

The successful candidate should possess:

• Strong academic credentials
• Good judgment
• Excellent analytical skills
• Intellectual rigor to grasp the tax intricacies of complicated transactions involving partnership and tax credits
• Comfort handling complex contractual work
• Vigilance and eye for detail
• Creativity to develop innovative solutions
• Pragmatic and highly organized
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate complex tax analyses to partners, colleagues and clients in a way that is clear and succinct
• Team player
• Confidence and self-motivation
• Willingness to accept responsibility and take ownership of projects
• Proactive mindset

This is an Associate role based in New York, Washington, DC Chicago or Houston. The salary range is 295,000 - 400,000 US Dollars (USD) per year, with the salary range for New York market being 295,000 - 370,000 US Dollars (USD) Yearly.

White & Case is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

## Job Description - Associate: Tax - Transactional - Americas

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. They are looking for a mid-level to senior-level tax associate to support their growing renewable energy and energy transition practices. The successful candidate should have experience with renewable energy tax credits, project finance, and partnership and M&A transactions, preferably including negotiating and documenting tax equity transactions.

### Qualifications

The successful candidate should possess:

• 4+ years of domestic taxation law experience, with background in partnership tax or tax credits
• Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker
• Commercial and business awareness
• Outstanding communication skills
• Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when juggling multiple projects
• Excellent drafting skills
• Driven by professional growth
• Strong professional presence
• Client service focus
• Team player
• Strong judgment
• Proactive, resourceful, takes initiative and a self-starter
• Fluency in English
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing

### Duties and Accountabilities

As a tax associate focusing on transactions, you will be expected to take on significant responsibility from an early stage—preparing tax analyses, drafting memos and opinions, reviewing and marking up contracts, and negotiating with other side counsel. You will be working alongside experienced partners within the Tax Group, and with colleagues across the firm’s offices and practices—from Project Development & Finance and Energy Transition to M&A.

Your duties and accountabilities will include:

• Negotiating and drafting tax-related provisions for a variety of transaction documents including, but not limited to partnership agreements, purchase and sale agreements, credit agreements, and related documentation
• Reviewing and drafting tax-related provisions of construction documents, offtake agreements (such as power purchase agreements), and other project documents
• Drafting memoranda and opinions on the qualification of projects for tax credits, structuring of investments, and related tax matters
• Coordinating internal and external resources in the various competence areas necessary in project development, financing and other transactions

### Location and Reporting

This is an Associate role based in New York, Washington, DC Chicago or Houston. The salary range is 295,000 - 400,000 US Dollars (USD) per year, with the salary range for New York market being 295,000 - 370,000 US Dollars (USD) Yearly.

### Equal Opportunities

White & Case is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

## Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. They are looking for a mid-level to senior-level tax associate to join their growing renewable energy and energy transition practices in the United States.

The successful candidate should have experience with renewable energy tax credits, project finance, and partnership and M&A transactions, preferably including negotiating and documenting tax equity transactions. They should possess strong academic credentials, good judgment, excellent analytical skills, and the intellectual rigor to grasp the tax intricacies of complicated transactions involving partnership and tax credits. They

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401(k), Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off

English

Juris Doctorate

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