Tax Associate, Mergers and Acquisitions Tax - JD/LLM | Dallas Fall 2026
About the role
At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the top tax firms in the world. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists and enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we put our culture and values front and center. KPMG is currently seeking a Tax Associate to join our Mergers & Acquisitions Tax practice.
Responsibilities
- Structure the tax aspects of domestic and multinational private equity and strategic mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions and IPOs, along with drafting tax opinions, memos, structure decks and Excel models (illustrating the tax benefits of alternative structures)
- Perform tax due diligence to identify tax exposures and opportunities
- Provide sell-side tax advisory services, including advising the sellers of a business on the most tax-efficient transaction structure and modeling the costs and benefits of alternative structures
- Deliver bankruptcy and restructuring tax advisory services, including providing tax advice on debt and equity restructurings (inside and outside of bankruptcy), with a goal of preserving the value of a company's tax attributes
- Compute tax attributes (earnings and profits, tax basis in the stock of consolidated subsidiaries and limitations under section 382)
- Draft tax opinions, memos and related advice
- Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, and more
Qualifications
- Must be pursuing and have obtained by the start date or have completed the following degrees/majors in the past 1