Senior Associate - Transactional Tax

Advocates Legal Recruiting; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocates Legal Recruiting represents an AmLaw 100 client hiring a Senior Associate in Transactional Tax with 4+ years of law firm experience. You will lead on transactional tax matters across M&A, partnership planning, PE fund formation, and capital markets deals, with direct deal exposure.

The role offers top‑of‑market compensation, bonus opportunities, and the chance to collaborate across major US markets.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of law firm experience in transactional tax
• Strong ability to advise deal teams and principals, not just draft memos
• Experience across M&A, partnership structures, and sponsor-side work preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead transactional tax work across domestic and cross-border M&A
• Oversee partnership tax planning
• Participate in private equity fund formation work
• Support capital markets and financing transactions

Skills

Transactional tax

Deal experience

Education

Bar admission (US jurisdictions)

Job description

Austin, United States | Posted on 07/22/2026

Senior Associate, Transactional Tax (4+ years)

Our AmLaw 100 client is hiring a senior transactional tax associate for a national team that sits in the middle of headline deals. This is a true platform move: deep bench, real volume, and tax lawyers who are brought in early, not at the cleanup stage.

Role Summary

You will run point on transactional tax across:

• Domestic and cross-border M&A
• Partnership tax planning
• Private equity fund formation work
• Capital markets and financing transactions

This is a senior associate seat with real responsibility and direct deal exposure.

Candidate profile

• Minimum 4 years of law firm experience focused on transactional tax
• Comfort advising deal teams and business principals, not just drafting memos after the fact
• Experience across M&A, partnership structures, and sponsor-side work is strongly preferred
• Bar admission in at least one US jurisdiction
  

Why this role

• Market position: A top-tier AmLaw platform with consistent national recognition across practice areas and lawyers.
• Deal flow: A tax group built to support high-volume, high-value transactions across major business centers.
• Bench strength: Large, globally integrated tax team, which matters when your deals do.
• Support: Formal well-being and benefits infrastructure that is actually resourced.

Location

Multiple major US markets. The team is built to collaborate across offices, and the right candidate will have options.

Compensation

Top-of-market base with discretionary bonus, consistent with elite AmLaw compensation bands for class years.

Interested?

If you have 4+ years in transactional tax and want a seat closer to the action, reach out for a confidential conversation.