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Anthropic is seeking an M&A Tax Director to lead the transactions tax function as the company pursues an active pipeline of acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, joint ventures, and strategic transactions. This is a high-impact role with significant ownership, working closely with the M&A Tax Lead and serving as a trusted resource for Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance teams.
Key responsibilities include leading tax workstreams across the deal lifecycle from initial evaluation through post-closing integration. You will manage tax due diligence, risk identification and quantification, and deal structuring analysis for acquisitions, mergers, acqui-hires, asset and stock purchases, corporate reorganizations, financing transactions, and minority investments. You'll partner with Corporate Development on deal pipeline evaluation, providing early-stage tax input to inform go/no-go decisions and deal economics.
Additional responsibilities include drafting and reviewing tax provisions in transaction documents (purchase agreements, merger agreements, ancillary documents), supporting post-acquisition tax integration planning (entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, tax attribute analysis), and advising on tax considerations for data center investments, build-to-suit arrangements, leases, and infrastructure transactions. You will advise on tax structuring of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and REIT-related investment structures, help build transactions tax playbooks and due diligence checklists, coordinate with tax compliance and provision teams for clean handoffs, and prepare technical tax memoranda documenting transactions and material tax positions.
Minimum qualifications include a JD or CPA, M&A and transactional tax experience from a large law firm, Big 4 M&A tax practice, or in-house transactions tax team, strong technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions (Section 338, Section 368 reorganizations, asset and stock acquisitions), experience running tax due diligence workstreams, and experience drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A documents.
Preferred qualifications include 7-10 years of tax experience with significant M&A exposure, LL.M. in Taxation or MST, experience with joint ventures and partnerships, REIT experience, data center or infrastructure transaction experience, tax experience at high-growth tech companies, SALT knowledge, equity compensation tax expertise, international tax exposure, and exceptional communication skills.
