We are seeking a brilliant, commercially minded
Corporate Transactional Tax & M&A Attorney to join our team as the principal transactional tax voice within the firm. If you love bridging the gap between complex tax regulations and practical, high-value business solutions, you'll fit right in.
About the RoleAs our Corporate Tax Attorney, you will be the structural architect for complex business transitions, domestic mergers and acquisitions, and multi-entity organizational designs. You won't just be reviewing code; you will be embedded in deal teams to ensure our clients achieve maximal operational flexibility while aggressively minimizing deal-based tax drag.
What You Will Do (Core Responsibilities)- M&A Architecture & Transactional Tax Support: Structure and design domestic M&A, strategic investments, divestitures, and joint ventures. You will draft, review, and negotiate critical tax provisions in SPAs, APAs, and Merger Agreements.
- Complex Structural Execution: Analyze and execute tax-free reorganizations, Section 338(h)(10) elections, S-corp conversions, and F-reorganizations.
- Risk Mitigation & Due Diligence: Issue-spot latent deal risks and conduct comprehensive tax due diligence to insulate clients from historical successor liabilities.
- Entity Structuring & Governance: Advise entrepreneurs and investors on optimal choice-of-entity strategies (C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, LP) and draft tailored, complex governance frameworks (LLC Operating Agreements, Partnership Agreements, Buy-Sell agreements).
- Specialized Corporate Setups: Design and build complex, multi-entity corporate structures, including IP holding companies, management services companies, and equipment leasing subsidiaries.
- Real Estate Capital & Asset Structuring: Advise on complex real estate capital allocations, utilizing 1031 like-kind exchanges and sophisticated developer or inventory land banking structures.
- Risk Assessment & Legal Documentation: Author formal legal opinions, technical memoranda, and complex corporate resolutions designed to address and mitigate unique federal or state transactional tax risks.
- Executive Compensation Alignment: Construct tax-efficient executive compensation packages, including profits interests, phantom stock arrangements, and equity incentive plans.
- Practice Management & Collaboration: Act as the primary transactional liaison working alongside our Advanced Tax Strategies and Trusts & Estates practice groups.
Who You Are (Requirements & Qualifications)- Experience: 7+ years of dedicated corporate tax and transactional experience.
- Technical Mastery: Translate Subchapters C and K into clear, actionable advice for C-suite executives, corporate boards, and external CPAs.
- Collaboration: Assertively lead strategy roundtables and negotiate with opposing counsel.
- Strategic Mindset: Flawlessly protect client interests under tight transaction timelines.
- Leadership: Supervise legal support, mentor and elevate junior corporate talent helping to build our internal talent pipeline.
- Portable Book: A portable book of business is highly valued and preferred, though not strictly required.
What We Offer- Total Compensation (Base salary, plus potential incentive compensation): $151,000 - $267,000.
- Compensation: Highly competitive, tiered salary framework starting at $151,000+ for attorneys meeting the 7-year threshold, scaling dynamically based on experience, production, and unique expertise.
- Incentive Compensation: For highly motivated professionals driven by performance, this position offers an annual bonus structured on a graduated scale from 3% up to 16% of your realized revenue. This model gives high achievers the potential to significantly maximize their total compensation, which is capped at a rewarding 42.5% of annual realization. Stay on track with your production plan for the opportunity to receive quarterly payouts.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical plan (75% employer-paid for employee), dental and vision plans (50% employer-paid), plus 100% employer-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
- Financial & Lifestyle Support: Firm-sponsored Attorney Student Loan Support Program, 401(k) plan with employer matching up to 3.5%, discretionary PTO, 9 paid holidays, paid state bar dues, and full CLE expense coverage.
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