Tax Associate Attorney

Job Title: Tax Associate Attorney
Job Location: Chicago, IL

Job Overview:
A law firm is seeking an experienced and skilled Tax Associate Attorney to join its dynamic Tax practice. The ideal candidate will be a mid-level associate specializing in transactional tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, structuring of business transactions, and entity formation. This position offers the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team, focusing on a broad range of complex federal tax issues.

Duties:

• Advise clients on federal tax issues, specifically relating to mergers, acquisitions, and business transactions.
• Structure and guide entity formation and choice-of-entity decisions.
• Draft and negotiate various agreements, including partnership agreements.
• Work on complex tax transactions, providing insight into tax implications and solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure tax compliance and optimal transaction structuring.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring excellent service delivery.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in federal transactional tax matters.
• Proven expertise in mergers and acquisitions, transaction structuring, and entity formation.
• Strong experience in drafting and negotiating partnership agreements is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to handle complex, time-sensitive matters with efficiency and precision.

Education:

• Juris Doctorate (JD) required from an accredited law school.

Certifications:

• Must be admitted to practice law in at least one of the following states: California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, or Washington, DC.

Skills:

• Strong academic background.
• Expertise in federal tax law, particularly transactional tax.
• Exceptional negotiation and drafting skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• High level of professionalism and client-focused approach.

Job Location:

• Chicago, IL.

Here is a firm with a strong presence in the Midwest that is well known for its expertise in labor and employment law. The firm actually is considered a trend setter in the areas of labor and employment law, and its attorneys are well known for their abilities in this field throughout the United States. Despite this strong expertise, this firm has grown into a powerful full service firm and has strong practice groups in litigation, corporate, tax, government contracts/technology, bankruptcy, immigration, entertainment, environmental, real estate transactions, employee benefits, estate planning and other areas of law. Associates who have interviewed with this firm are impressed with the fact that the firm appears to do extremely good work and is in a serious growth mode. From our observations, the growth of this firm appears to have been very intelligent and deliberate. Despite the fact that this is a branch office, there do appear to be opportunities for significant associate advancement here.