Senior Associate - Transactional Tax

Advocates Legal Recruiting; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Advocates Legal Recruiting is representing a top AmLaw client for a Senior Associate, Transactional Tax (4+ years) position. The role focuses on leading transactional tax work across domestic and cross-border M&A, partnership planning, private equity fund formation, and capital markets transactions, with collaboration across deal teams and business principals.

The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of law firm experience in transactional tax, be comfortable advising deal teams, and hold bar

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of law firm experience focused on transactional tax.

Responsibilities

• Lead transactional tax work across domestic and cross-border M&A deals.
• Advise deal teams and business principals, not just drafting memos.
• Support partnership tax planning and sponsor-side work.
• Handle capital markets and financing transactions in coordination with clients.

Skills

Transactional tax

M&A

Partnership structures

Deal teams

Job description

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

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.