Associate Partner – Mergers & Acquisition – Tax & Deal Advisory SyncUp

The Corporate Institute; Bengaluru; Vor Ort; INR 4.200.000 - 6.200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Corporate Institute seeks a technically exceptional advisory professional to manage multi-workstream deal mandates and build long-term relationships with PE sponsors, strategic acquirers, founders, and banks. You will lead tax due diligence, deal structuring, SPA advisory, and post-deal engagements while contributing to business development, growth, and team leadership.

Responsibilities include leading buy-side/sell-side tax due diligence, advising on tax-efficient deal structures, and

Qualifikationen

• Lead buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence across deals.
• Advise on deal structures with tax efficiency and compliance.
• Structure SPA provisions including tax warranties and indemnities.

Aufgaben

• Lead cross-border M&A tax advisory and post-deal restructuring.
• Counsel PE sponsors and founders on exit taxation and planning.
• Manage post-deal tax integration, entity rationalisation, and TP implications.
• Collaborate with Indirect Tax and Transfer Pricing teams on structuring.

Kenntnisse

Tax due diligence

Deal structuring

SPA advisory

Cross-border M&A

Client management

Team leadership

Jobbeschreibung

The role demands a technically exceptional advisor who is equally adept at managing complex, multi-workstream deal mandates and at building trusted, long-term relationships with PE sponsors, strategic acquirers, founders, and investment banks. The successful candidate will lead tax due diligence, deal structuring, SPA advisory, and post-deal integration engagements while also playing a material role in business development, practice growth, and team leadership.

Technical Advisory & Transaction Execution

• Lead buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence across domestic and cross-border transactions identifying, quantifying, and clearly communicating tax exposures, contingent liabilities, and structural risks to deal teams and investment committees
• Design and advise on optimal deal structures share vs. asset acquisitions, slump sales, itemised transfers, demergers, NCLT merger schemes, and business transfers with a sharp focus on tax efficiency, regulatory compliance, and commercial workability
• Advise on purchase price mechanics and SPA provisions including tax representations and warranties, indemnities, tax covenants, earn-out tax treatment, warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance, and locked- box vs. completion accounts mechanisms
• Provide comprehensive cross-border M&A advisory structuring inbound acquisitions, outbound investments, offshore holding structures, repatriation strategies, and exit tax planning across relevant treaty and FEMA / FDI frameworks
• Advise PE sponsors and portfolio companies on exit structuring – IPO readiness from a tax perspective, secondary PE sales, drag-along and tag-along mechanics, management buyouts, and rollover structures
• Advise on indirect tax (GST / Stamp Duty) implications of deal structures, in coordination with the Indirect Tax practice; flag deal-critical indirect tax exposures in due diligence

Client Management

• Serve as the lead relationship partner for a portfolio of PE sponsors, strategic acquirers, and founder-led businesses owning client satisfaction, retention, and relationship expansion

Post-Deal & Restructuring Advisory

• Advise on post-acquisition tax integration – harmonisation of group tax positions, entity rationalisation, simplification of holding structures, and integration of acquired tax functions
• Counsel clients on employee incentive structuring in M&A contexts – ESOPs, phantom stock, Management Incentive Plans (MIPs), and their treatment in the context of acquisitions, exits, and accelerated vesting provisions
• Support on transfer pricing implications of post-deal restructuring, intercompany arrangements, and revised group structures, in coordination with the Transfer Pricing practice
• Advise on carved-out entity structuring, transition services agreements (TSAs), and regulatory filings associated with post-deal separations and integrations