Is it possible to move from compliance tax to m&a tax after 6 years without getting pigeonholed

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Would be tough, and would likely have to take a demotion if changing firms. Best bet would be to try and do an internal rotation to get experience, or try to craft a story as to how your specific compliance experience applies to M&A. Not sure what your end goal is, but it may be easier to get a rotation into a project based team in M&A for the resume and then leverage that

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