Is anyone here familiar with Alvarez and Marshall? What’s the culture like? What levels are there? Are there partners and MDs? Do people work “part time” at A&M? What’s pay like - I’ve heard commission based? Thinking about making moves and they intrigue me based on what little I’ve heard but trying to understand more. Anything you know would be helpful!

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Rank and ft/pt addressed above. What business unit are you looking at specifically, as that's the primary driver of "culture" and comp to a great extent?

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international tax - in the asset management space (hedge, PE, mutual funds)

It might be helpful to learn the actual name. It’s Marsal, not Marshall.

The firm was borne out of the Anderson catastrophe back in 2002.

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this is too freaking funny!

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Commission based? Following as I never heard of this before

Rumor and conjecture but the idea of getting paid more in a tangible way if you work harder/perform is very intriguing.

Don’t work there but I’ve read that people in FDD, restructuring, consulting groups can make huge bonuses like close to 100% of base salary depending on utilization and other metrics. I’m not sure this applies to any tax groups though but maybe they still pay better bonuses than other tax firms. They split their different teams into different entities at the firm so tax would have different rules than consulting

Ahh perhaps this is what came across as “commission” to me. Bring in a big client, make a lot of $ and you can pull in a bonus that’s half or more of your salary.

They have lower base salaries but significant bonuses...but this only applies to M&A tax (for their tax practices). If you're doing compliance, the bonus structure is not the same and they are much smaller than other firms on the compliance side.

MD = partner. Base can be a little lower than market but bonuses can be very large and pay above market. People are part time there. Culture is group specific

Correct. If that’s your criteria, then I would try to come on board as a Senior Director. That’s the level below md/partner and checks your boxes.

Send me a dm. I don’t work there but I’ll get you in touch with a close personal friend of mine who does work there.

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