M&A Tax Director

About the role

Anthropic is seeking an experienced M&A Tax Director to lead tax workstreams for its growing portfolio of acquisitions, joint ventures, data‑center investments and other strategic transactions. You will partner closely with Corporate Development, Legal and Finance, guiding tax strategy from deal evaluation through post‑closing integration.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage tax workstreams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui‑hires, asset and stock purchases, corporate reorganizations, financing transactions, and minority investments, including tax due diligence, risk identification and deal structuring.
• Partner with Corporate Development on early‑stage deal evaluation, providing tax input to inform go/no‑go decisions and deal economics.
• Draft and review tax provisions in transaction documents such as purchase agreements and merger agreements.
• Support post‑acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring and tax attribute analysis.
• Advise on tax considerations for data‑center investments, build‑to‑suit arrangements, leases and related infrastructure transactions, coordinating incentives, credits and indirect tax matters.
• Advise on tax structuring of joint ventures, strategic partnerships and REIT‑related investment structures, including real‑estate and data‑center joint ventures.
• Develop and maintain transaction tax playbooks, due‑diligence checklists and internal processes.
• Coordinate with tax compliance and provision teams to ensure clean handoff of closed transactions, documenting structures, elections, tax attributes and reporting positions.
• Prepare technical tax memoranda documenting transactions, material tax positions and risk assessments for internal sign‑off, audit and tax return filing.

Required profile

• JD or C...

Required skills