Investment Banking - Mergers & Acquisitions Infrastructure - Associate - London

As an Associate in the EMEA Infrastructure M&A team in London, you will work with market-leading professionals at the heart of the leading global investment bank. You will participate in the "full cycle" of transactional execution including preparing marketing pitches, reviewing and formulating financial analysis, preparing and presenting internal committee memoranda and client presentations. You will play a leadership role in implementing the execution function including working with analysts and associates, as well as assisting senior bankers on negotiations and tactics.

You will develop strong functional skills in the major areas of investment banking and will demonstrate the ability to become a senior officer who is capable of generating and executing their own transactions. Working with a broader team of approximately 100 M&A practitioners in the EMEA region, you will be provided opportunities to be involved real-time in transactions that may include frequent travel.

Specifically, you will get exposure to a broad set of transactions:

• Sell-sides, divestitures, spin-offs, leveraged buy-outs, public to privates
• Acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures
• Shareholder activism advice
• Equity, bank and debt capital market transactions

Sectors include:

• Digital infrastructure (data centres, communication towers, fibre and optical cable networks)
• Transportation infrastructure (airports, sea ports and container terminals, toll roads, EV charging, rail and mass transit and parking)
• Energy, power, utility and mining infrastructure (conventional, renewable and distributed generation, storage, transmission and distribution networks, water and waste)
• Mission-critical services and social infrastructure

Clients include:

• Corporates
• Financial institutions including infrastructure investors, private equity firms, diversified alternative asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices and insurance capital providers

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.

Job responsibilities include:

• Develop content for strategic meetings with clients regarding M&A transactions
• Interact with senior team members and client management teams on a daily basis to execute transactions and discuss strategic alternatives
• Defining, guiding and reviewing detailed valuation analysis, including DCF, trading comparables, transaction comparables, LBO and DDM analyses
• Defining, guiding and reviewing detailed combination and other financial analyses in the context of M&A transactions or pitch situations
• Develop highly bespoke and sophisticated M&A sale strategy processes
• Work closely with clients to develop comprehensive transaction materials, including the preparation of business plans, performance analyses, due diligence reports and marketing materials
• Assist deal team leaders and transaction lawyers in negotiations and deal documentation
• Provide leadership, mentorship and supervision to analysts and interns
• Participate in graduate recruiting

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Several years of prior work experience in an investment banking front office role or in a relevant role at a top tier buy-side institution or consulting firm
• Strong corporate finance proficiency and financial modelling skills
• Experience in the transaction cycle and the steps in the process and is execution oriented
• Impeccable communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with senior professionals, clients and key stakeholders in other lines of business
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently
• Ability to manage work across several transactions in parallel, managing time appropriately across competing demands
• Desire and/or experience in working in infrastructure-related sectors on M&A transactions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Bachelor's degree
• European language (in addition to English) is desired but not mandatory