Associate - Investment Banking - Los Angeles

Role Overview

Ducera Partners is seeking to expand its team in its Los Angeles office with investment banking team members to assist in deal execution and commercial activities across the broad range of products Ducera offers. Assignments may include mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory, restructuring, liability management, capital markets, and growth capital, and frequently involve exposure to new issue advisory services (including ABS related issuances), strategic advisory assignments associated with contingent financial risk and natural disaster, government and public-sector clients.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with senior bankers and clients in a lean team setting, demonstrating initiative, ownership, judgment, and professionalism while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Coinciding complex, time-sensitive workstreams across internal teams and external parties, including clients, legal advisors, and other transaction participants.
• Actively participating in transaction execution, developing and reviewing financial analyses and models, developing and reviewing transaction structures, financing alternatives, implementation paths, and scenario analyses as well as supporting senior bankers in client-facing interactions, commercial activities and deal execution.
• Preparing, reviewing, and presenting client materials, including pitch books, strategic advisory presentations, transaction presentations, recommendations, and review of capital markets, ratings and credit perspectives to support discussions with clients and other stakeholders. Work involves developing and presenting perspectives, informed by reviewing substantial amounts of content, third party perspectives and recommendations, legislative and regulatory documents, credit and equity research, market reference points and internal experience.
• Maintaining internal transaction and pipeline tracking tools, ensuring accuracy and organization in a fast-paced, multi-mandate environment, tracking news, legislative and regulatory activity and monitoring for potential opportunities. Over time, take an active role in covering clients and developing business development efforts.
• Managing day-to-day transaction execution workstreams, including senior banker and clients requests and analysis on time with strong attention to detail.
• Providing mentorship, training, and guidance to junior team members.

Qualifications

• Experience in investment banking with strong technical and corporate finance foundation.
• Strong organizational and process-management skills, with the ability to utilize technology and data tools to build and maintain databases, investor and lender relationships, market comps, and transaction pipeline tracking.
• Demonstrated proficiency in preparing client presentations and analyzing company and transaction comparables.
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented professional with a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and the maturity to interface directly with clients, investors, and senior deal bankers.
• Proactive self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit that is comfortable operating within a lean organization and a desire to play an integral role in business development efforts / strategies across topical industries and products.