Investment Banking – EMEA M&A Private Capital Advisory – Associate – London

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is highly motivated to work in a dynamic team and to contribute to our Investment Banking business. The Private Capital Advisory team is part of J.P. Morgan's global M&A platform, assisting clients in raising non-control private capital for a variety of purposes including: M&A, growth/capex, shareholder monetisations, balance sheet equitizations, refinancings etc. The transactions span from minority common equity and JVs, to preferred equity and more credit-like structures, across the risk-return spectrum from large IG corporates to special situations.

As an Associate in the EMEA M&A Private Capital Advisory team, you will work closely with country, industry, and other product teams within the bank. The team often designs the structure and capital solution, including bringing in the most relevant investor partners which can include non-control mandates within private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, alternative & credit investors, pension funds & insurance companies, family offices, and other institutional investors. The team has raised more than $60bn of capital for clients in the last 4 years in over 30 transactions across EMEA. This includes the largest private capital transaction in EMEA in 5 out of the last 6 years. Established over 20 years ago, the team is poised for continued growth as private capital is becoming only more relevant to corporates globally, including in recessionary periods.

Job responsibilities

• Think and develop highly bespoke capital solutions
• Manage ongoing communication with investors be it in executions and as part of overall dialogue
• Model transaction structures, return profiles and scenarios to assess optimal terms and economics for clients
• Prepare term sheets and other transaction materials
• Process coordination from launch to signing, in close cooperation with other internal teams, including investor communication, management interaction, and overall transaction management
• Support in preparation of materials to present to J.P. Morgan clients, in partnership with industry or country teams
• Perform a great variety of tasks, including many opportunities to ‘step-up’, given the team’s high deal flow and its flat hierarchical structure
• Develop proficiency in private market transactions across the capital structure

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Extensive proven investment banking experience
• Strong desire to achieve optimal transaction outcomes and create value for our clients
• Keen interest in private capital, minority M&A, and structured transactions. Interest in how minority transactions / capital raisings work including shareholder and governance agreements.
• Desire to work across sectors and have exposure to different structures
• Proven technical ability and overall corporate finance proficiency
• Be flexible to work across the capital spectrum and be exposed to new and creative structures. In particular, it is important to be able to have an understanding of capital structures and investor returns modelling
• Ability to engage in client and investors communications
• Ability to take ownership across a transaction, with significant exposure to corporate clients and investors
• Ability to show initiative and manage time appropriately across competing demands

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Prior experience in M&A, leveraged finance or capital raising be it equity or debt
• Prior experience in communicating with buyside investors and corporates
• European language (in addition to English) is desired but not mandatory

This role encompasses the performance of regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the relevant regulatory authorities to carry out such activities.