Senior Associate – Advanced Tax Strategy

Job Description:

• Direct the strategic design and execution of high-value tax planning initiatives, including: Tax-free mergers and acquisitions and related restructurings
• Multi-tier corporate and partnership structures
• Complex partnership agreements, including profits interests
• Section 1202 QSBS planning and memoranda
• Corporate conversions, reorganizations, and recapitalizations
• Translate high-level designs into sequenced implementation plans
• Ensure strategic alignment and efficient execution across multi-party transactions
• Serve as a primary client contact on advanced tax planning matters
• Explain complex tax concepts clearly and practically
• Coordinate with clients, internal attorneys, and external advisors
• Build and maintain long-term client relationships
• Coordinate clients, advisors, and internal teams on implementation and design of tax strategies
• Oversee team execution and maintain high performance standards
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level attorneys and staff
• Maintain productive relationships with external advisors
• Opportunity to help scale a nationally recognized advanced tax planning platform
• Participate in regional expansion initiatives
• Shape team structure and hiring decisions
• Potential pathway into practice group leadership.

Requirements:

• Deep, substantive transactional tax experience with hands-on drafting
• Ability to operate independently with accountability
• Strong communication and relationship-management skills
• Professional presence in client-facing and internal settings
• Calm leadership across complex, multi-party matters
• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
• LL.M. in Taxation strongly preferred (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years post-JD tax practice with significant transactional drafting responsibility
• Big-4 or accounting firm experience welcomed where it includes substantive planning and implementation
• Compliance-only backgrounds are unlikely to be a fit.
• Selected candidates may be asked to provide a representative deal list and/or drafting sample demonstrating direct, hands-on involvement in advanced transactional tax planning and implementation.

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance (Employer pays 75% employee only)
• Dental Insurance (Employer pays 50% employee only)
• Vision Insurance (Employer pays 50% employee only)
• Life Insurance (Employer pays 100% employee only)
• Short-term Disability Insurance (Employer pays 100% employee only)
• Long-term Disability Insurance (Employer pays 100% employee only)
• Voluntary Critical Illness, Accident, Life, and Hospital Indemnity options.
• Attorney Student Loan Support Program (financial assistance toward student loans)
• 401(k) plan - with Employer matching up to 3.5%
• Discretionary Paid Time Off
• Holiday pay (9 days / year)
• State Bar dues and CLEs
• Hybrid eligible
• Professional Growth - Opportunities for advancement in a growing firm.

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