Description:

Position Specific Description:
We are seeking a Principal Tax Attorney to work on A Wholesale Electricity Supplier Company's Federal Tax Planning & Policy team. A Wholesale Electricity Supplier Company has the largest team of tax attorneys in Florida and one of the largest teams of tax attorneys of any public company. This role will focus on the negotiation and structuring of A Wholesale Electricity Supplier Company's financing structures, including tax equity partnerships and other joint ventures, tax credit transfer deals, and securities offerings. This role will also involve reviewing and commenting on tax aspects of financial models for various transactions A Wholesale Electricity Supplier Company participates in.

Professional Experience:

Strong transactional tax background with experience working on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and reorganizations.
Significant experience working with the rules in Subchapter K and Subchapter C and structuring complex transactions, including preparing steps plans laying out economic and tax aspects of transactions.
Reviewing and revising transaction documentation, including drafting of economic and tax provisions of purchase and sale agreements and LLC/partnership agreements.
Research and drafting of legal memoranda or opinions analyzing federal income tax law issues.
Serving as a primary tax adviser to business clients, including by explaining technical tax issues in layman's terms.
Energy industry experience is a plus, but not required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working in the Tax department of an AmLaw 100 law firm or the Washington National Tax or M&A group of a Big 4 public accounting firm
Tax LLM

Job Overview:
Employees in this job drive value by providing support to the organization with respect to the tax aspects of pending acquisitions, dispositions, financings, reorganizations, restructurings, and joint ventures, with a view to optimize taxes.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Serve as the US federal income tax single point of accountability for assigned projects and identify state income tax and non-income tax issues
Support various worldwide tax projects, including analyzing relevant tax law for tax planning transactions; working with foreign and domestic tax advisors to understand relevant tax rules; partnering with multiple business units to understand both domestic and foreign tax implications; and preparing and/or reviewing financial models to illustrate the tax consequences of various alternatives
Communicate complex technical tax issues to management and internal stakeholders
Draft and review tax provisions
Prepare technical tax memoranda
Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications: