Founding Lawyer - Tax

Lina Law (HX26); Paris; Sur place; EUR 210 000 - 320 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Lina Law is building a premier AI-native law firm in Paris and seeks a Founding Lawyer – Tax to lead the tax practice. You own end-to-end tax work on complex deals and sign off on final judgments.

You will structure holding and acquisition entities, manage debt push-down, and handle tax due diligence, rulings, and regulatory interactions, while shaping the firm's direction as a founding partner, with AI-generated drafts supporting your work.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of post-qualification experience in transactional tax.
• Experience in LBO and M&A structuring, private equity and venture financing.
• Strong drafting reflexes and the standing to serve as the senior signing authority.

Responsabilités

• Own the tax workstream on complex transactions - LBOs and private equity deals, M&A, venture and growth financings, reorganisations and exits - as the signing-off partner.
• Structure and document deals: acquisition and holding structures, debt push-down and interest deductibility, participation exemption, withholding tax, management and sweet equity packages, employee incentive plans, and the tax provisions in SPAs, shareholders' agreements and financing documents.
• Handle tax due diligence, rulings and dealings with the authorities, and provide senior-level sign-off on structuring and risk, building on AI-generated drafts and analyses.
• Turn every matter into reusable platform assets: encoded playbooks, structuring memos, model clauses and review checklists that compound the firm's edge.
• Help shape the firm's direction, culture, and growth as a founding member of the partnership.

Connaissances

Drafting reflexes

Bias to action

Signing authority

Formation

Bar admission or equivalent

Description du poste

We are building the premier AI-native law firm. We've just closed our pre-seed round, backed by a prestigious VC. Powered by our technology, we combine elite legal talent with AI agents to deliver faster, more precise, and more reliable legal services.

The role: Founding Lawyer – Tax

You're the founding partner who builds and owns our tax practice. You run the tax side of complex deals end to end, from holding structures and LBO acquisition structuring to management packages, fund and carry structures, refinancings, reorganisations and exits, bringing the senior judgment that lets a deal go out the door with your name on it. As a founding partner, you shape how the practice runs, how the firm grows, and how AI does the heavy lifting while you do the signing-off.

What you'll do

• Own the tax workstream on complex transactions - LBOs and private equity deals, M&A, venture and growth financings, reorganisations and exits - as the signing-off partner.
• Structure and document deals: acquisition and holding structures, debt push-down and interest deductibility, participation exemption, withholding tax, management and sweet equity packages, employee incentive plans, and the tax provisions in SPAs, shareholders' agreements and financing documents.
• Handle tax due diligence, rulings and dealings with the authorities, and provide senior-level sign-off on structuring and risk, building on AI-generated drafts and analyses.
• Turn every matter into reusable platform assets: encoded playbooks, structuring memos, model clauses and review checklists that compound the firm's edge.
• Help shape the firm's direction, culture, and growth as a founding member of the partnership.

Qualifications and requirements

• Qualified to practice as a lawyer (or admitted tax adviser with equivalent standing).
• Minimum 7 years of post-qualification experience in transactional tax - LBO and M&A structuring, private equity and venture financing - with hands-on deal experience.
• Strong drafting reflexes, a bias to action, and the standing to serve as the senior signing authority.