Tax Associate

Job Title: Tax Associate

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Salary/Payrate: Competitive (DOE)

Work Environment: Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote)

Term: Perm

Bachelor's Degree Required: Yes (J.D. required)

Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500 should the person you refer gets hired.

Overview

A highly respected law firm is seeking a Tax Associate with a minimum of 3 years of experience to join its sophisticated Tax, Trusts & Estates Department in Los Angeles. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex transactional tax matters involving privately held businesses, high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and emerging companies.

The ideal candidate will have experience advising clients on the tax implications of mergers and acquisitions, business restructurings, and other strategic transactions while collaborating with attorneys and clients to develop practical, tax-efficient solutions. This is a hybrid position requiring four days per week in the office and one day per week remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise privately held businesses, partnerships, S corporations, and C corporations on the federal, state, and local tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financings, restructurings, and other strategic transactions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate tax-related provisions in transaction documents, including tax representations and warranties, indemnification provisions, purchase price allocations, partnership allocation provisions, distribution waterfalls, tax distribution provisions, and other transactional tax provisions.
• Counsel clients on pre-transaction restructuring strategies, including F reorganizations, corporate and partnership restructurings, asset contributions and distributions, debt restructurings, and related tax planning.
• Provide transactional tax planning and business structuring advice to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, privately held businesses, and emerging companies.
• Advise clients on Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS), Section 1031 exchanges, charitable planning, state and local tax issues, and other sophisticated tax planning strategies.
• Collaborate with attorneys across multiple practice groups to structure transactions and deliver practical, business-oriented legal solutions.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships while delivering exceptional client service.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Active California Bar admission, or eligibility to waive into California.
• Minimum 3 years of transactional tax experience in a law firm.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local tax law affecting business transactions.
• Experience advising privately held businesses, partnerships, S corporations, and C corporations.
• Experience with mergers and acquisitions, business restructurings, and transactional tax planning.
• Excellent drafting, analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple sophisticated matters while working collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience representing high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices.
• Knowledge of QSBS planning, Section 1031 exchanges, charitable planning, and business succession planning.
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex tax provisions in transactional documents.
• Strong understanding of partnership taxation, corporate taxation, and pass-through entities.
• LL.M. in Taxation is a plus but not required.