Dealmakers are increasingly turning to tax leaders to strengthen their organizations' deal-readiness as executive teams head into one of the busiest M&A seasons of all time.

From the new challenges and opportunities introduced by the OBBBA to the realization of AI’s operational power, finance chiefs must juggle many unprecedented factors when planning to support corporate and capital restructuring transactions.

Crowe Tax and CFO.com are here to help. In this episode, Brian Carey joins CFO.com to address the most complex questions that arise when tax leaders help their organizations balance varying risks ahead of (and throughout) mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and IPO events.

Finance chiefs are inundated with studies and reports revealing the increasingly strategic role of the CFO, and specifically, tax leaders. Executives want to make the best decisions at every turn to drive lasting business outcomes. But what, specifically, can tax operations do to become that dependable driver of enterprise value creation?

Crowe Tax and CFO.com are revealing how tax teams are building on their foundational compliance work to expand into the generation of enduring, undisputable enterprise value.

In this podcast episode, Nick Hollinden talks with CFO.com to reveal how tax leaders can (and should)… 

• Use tax as a tangible lever to optimize financial outcomes by managing risk and voicing attributes
• Go beyond viewing tax as a compliance machine to champion it as a source of direct financial value
• Leverage tax in restructuring transactions, strategic planning, and macroeconomic course-setting (and course-correcting)
• Give tax a role in operational efficiency and transformation to produce more with less and enable better decision intelligence
• Align tax structures and transfer pricing with value chains, assets, functions, and risks within the broader organization
• Empower tax professionals to attract top talent and disprove the misperception that technologies replace people, a move that creates irreversible value

This first episode kicks off our four-part series, created to show listeners how Crowe’s tax team understands tax across industries, regions, sophistication levels, entity types and sizes.