Are there anybody work in the M&A Tax group? What is the work looks like there? Is that group focused more on tax researching? Consulting? Or also involved compliance, provision?

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I’m in international, but I have some friends in M&A, and it’s largely consulting on deals, which may include putting together decks outlining the various tax considerations, due diligence, lots of work on 382, NOLs, tax basis studies, etc. There is a good amount of research involved, more than most other groups. Very little compliance or provision work. It’s one of the best groups for experience/pay, but also one of the most stressful due to late hours and brutal deadlines at times.

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I’m in M&A at PwC. I agree with the description of work by PwC1. I will say, the type of work you’ll be doing is highly dependent upon which office and partners you work for. Some practices are deals focused (eg tax due diligence), others quantitative (eg 382, basis, E&P studies), and others structuring heavy (post-acquisition integration, global structuring).

If you’re interested, direct message me. We’re always looking for more talent.

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Thanks Manager 3, sent you a DM already!

I'm in EY's M&A tax group. We do no provision or compliance whatsoever. But it's basically as everyone has explained so far. Also the majority of the group is made up of attorneys. Mainly EY recruits JD/LLM's. While it is possible for non attorneys to transfer into the group, it can take a while and you also need to be highly rated.

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I’m in M&A tax. Echoing what’s in here, there are a lot of subsets of M&A you can do. Project work includes stock basis and E&P projects, bankruptcy, 382 studies, carve-out, or large partnership transactions. Then you have deal work which includes due diligence and structuring. I’ve only touched on a few of these many offerings. Lots of research (which I enjoy). The lawyers in the group are good at research and technical writing, whereas the accounting/numbers is difficult for them at first (reading financials, tax returns, modeling). Conversely, us accountants start off at writing as well as a sedated monkey, but we excel when it comes to the numbers

We do have a lot of lawyers in the group but are bringing in more CPAs. I was an external CPA hire.

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