Transaction and Structuring Specialist

A career in our Structuring practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their obligations under the Income-tax Act, FEMA Laws, SEBI Laws, Corporate Laws, Corporate Laws and will also engage in succession planning and deal advisory.

Our team helps our clients with various aspects of a merger and acquisition transactions such as acquisitions, restructuring, divestiture, partnerships, joint ventures, family settlements and succession planning.

You’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. The firm's professional skills and responsibilities for this level include but are not limited to:

Invite and give feedback in a constructive manner.

• Share and collaborate effectively with others.
• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
• Handle and analyse data and information responsibly.
• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner, both verbally and in the documents that you produce.
• Build and maintain an internal and external network.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Client Delivery:

• Providing tax structuring and tax due diligence advice on a wide range of transactions.
• Identify the economic, broad business, legal and financial risks of a given transaction. Develop an understanding of established management concepts and practices that may have application and impact on the transaction.
• Undertaking tax due diligence of the companies being evaluated for acquisition or divestiture. Providing M&A advisory services and transaction structuring services.
• Drafting and Review agreements (share purchase agreements, subscription agreements, trust deeds, business transfer agreements, asset sale/purchase agreements, etc.)
• Draft schemes of arrangement/amalgamation; concept presentations with overall objectives being achieved in a tax efficient and regulatory compliant manner.
• M&A deal data tracking globally and league tables preparation. Perform M&A- or industry- or company-focused or country-focussed desktop researches.
• Maintain data controls of research papers and conduct hygiene checks on regular intervals.
• Demonstrating professionalism by working within legal and regulatory guidelines while remaining independent and objective at all times.
• Keep up to date with changing legislation and work to tight deadlines, while seeking the best financial and commercial result for clients.

Research & Technical Opinions:

• Execute an exhaustive research for the clients in line with their expectations. Ensure usage of all tools (External market data/internal portals) to generate effective research.
• Undergo regular technical trainings/ knowledge sharing session within team to deliver effectively as well as efficiently.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with strong academic background
• 2-4 years of experience in Direct & International tax practice as part of Articleship or post qualification for freshers. M&A Tax experience is mandatory for non-freshers.
• Passion to work in M&A tax/ Structuring field.
• Good command over MS Office
• Strong interpersonal skills (ability to liaise at all levels).
• Ability to communicate and interact with clients
• An energetic and innovative individual with entrepreneurial attitude and strong business acumen.
• Ability to work cooperatively as well as independently under pressure with close attention to detail.
• Ability to understand, interpret, analyse and infer on laws, regulations and judicial precedents.