Associate 1 or 2 – M&A Consumer / Retail recruitment
A US investment bank who specialise in providing advice to large corporates on MA and restructuring transactions are looking to hire an Associate 1 or 2 into their London business with specific transaction experience in the consumer and retail space. The bank has worked on some landmark transactions over the last 12 months and have a similar pipeline for the next 12 months.
The bank works on transactions valued between £200m and £30bn with large cap multinational corporates across Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. Their deals are highly cross border in nature and highly complex.
The consumer / retail team in London is led by an ex-Bulge bracket banker with in-depth knowledge and relationships with companies across the consumer / retail sub sectors including luxury goods, retail, beverages, food retail, tobacco etc.
The unique structure of the team means that candidates will get fantastic deal exposure seeing the 360 deal cycle from initial client pitch through to SPA negotiations. You will also work directly with MD and take an active part in meeting clients and CEOs of the worlds leading companies in the consumer and retail space.
Candidate Requirements:
- 3 - 5 years of MA/investment banking experience gained from a bulge bracket investment bank, leading boutique or blue chip private equity fund.
- Client-facing, good communicator, confident, well-presented and fluent in English.
- Knowledge of the consumer / retail investment banking space, ideally would have worked in the sector previously and will have completed deals in this space.
- Can produce IMs, financial valuations using DCF, LBO and merger models in excel.
- Candidates will have the right to work in the EU.
Differentiators
- Very high bonus payments, all in cash
- High level of client interaction / exposure
- Good working/team environment
- See the full transaction cycle
- 80% execution
Please apply ASAP if you wish to be considered.
Jake Olson / jolson@graingerwest.co.uk / +442076530085
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jakeolson1
GraingerWest provide recruitment services across corporate finance and we work with Bulge bracket banks, advisory boutiques and private equity funds. We provide expert knowledge across a variety of different sectors including Consumer, Retail, TMT, FIG, NRG, Industrials, Healthcare, TMT etc and across products such as MA, ECM, DCM and restructuring. We work with candidates from Analyst through to Partner and MD level and we work across EMEA with a focus on Western Europe.
