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Chicago, IL

Attorney in Chicago, IL

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Job Title: Mergers & Acquisitions Tax Partner

Job Responsibilities:
The Mergers & Acquisitions Tax Partner at the company is a leadership position that involves advising clients on complex buy-side and sell-side activities, delivering high-level tax consulting, and transaction structuring services throughout the M&A lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and overseeing tax aspects of M&A transactions, including due diligence, structuring, and modeling.
- Providing strategic tax consulting related to buy-side and sell-side activities.
- Advising clients on tax implications of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and divestitures, including tax-free reorganizations and Section 355 transactions.
- Leading transactional tax consulting, including Section 382 loss studies, tax treatment of transaction costs, earnings and profits calculations, and stock basis studies.
- Reviewing and ensuring the accuracy of transaction-related tax compliance deliverables.
- Collaborating with deal teams, including financial, legal, and operational professionals.
- Maintaining a deep understanding of federal, state, and international tax considerations.

Client Relationship & Practice Management:
- Managing client relationships with professionalism, ensuring clear communication, mutual understanding, and alignment on deliverables, timelines, and fees.
- Serving as a trusted advisor by monitoring client service quality and value delivery, ensuring the company consistently provides high-quality work, proactive guidance, open communication, and strategic insight.
- Ensuring clients are billed appropriately, reflecting scope, value delivered, and company standards.

Business Development:
- Actively cross-selling company services by staying informed about the company's full range of offerings and capabilities, serving as a knowledgeable ambassador and a connector across service lines.
- Contributing thought leadership through articles, presentations, and webinars.
- Driving growth by identifying and pursuing opportunities in the market for tax advisory in M&A and private equity by expanding existing accounts and developing new client relationships.
- Representing the company at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
- Developing go-to-market strategies in collaboration with the company's leadership, business development, and marketing teams.
- Establishing sales and revenue goals, and actively managing a strategic business plan and opportunity pipeline to ensure these goals are met.

Leadership, Mentorship & Staff Development:
- Providing mentoring and motivation to the team, including developing young leaders via active contribution to training and development.
- Acting as a thought leader within the company and the broader industry through knowledge sharing, technical insight, and public engagement.
- Being growth-oriented and working towards building a leveraged model, when appropriate.
- Respecting and celebrating the value of each team member’s stories, backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas by building meaningful relationships with all those they interact with.

Education and Experience Information:
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- CPA or JD is required.
- 10+ years of progressive experience within tax at a public accounting firm or law firm, including leadership experience with a consistent record of accomplishment, accountability, and history of execution against budget and strategic initiatives.
- 8+ years of experience dedicated to providing transactional tax and related consulting services.
- Proven thought leadership, advanced technical skills, in-depth knowledge, and a concentration in transactional tax services.

Salary Information:
- Estimated Salary Range: $XX,000 - $XX,000
- Salaries offered to candidates are determined based on factors such as the candidate's relevant skill set, experience, licensure, and certifications, as well as job responsibilities, geography, market considerations, and organizational needs.
- The company offers a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that allows each employee to design a package that best suits their needs and goes beyond standard options, including time off outside of standard PTO to recharge and give back to the community, annual discretionary merit increases and bonuses, talent development resources to tap into growth opportunities, and more.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought and background to build an inclusive and energized culture and better meet the needs of clients. Agency recruiters may not submit unsolicited candidate information or resumes to any company employee without a recruiting services contract first being entered into with the company's Talent Acquisition Team.