About the Company:
This 24-year old New York City-based middle market investment bank is seeking entrepreneurial senior investment banking professionals who can source and / or execute transactions with middle market companies in the consumer products industry. The investment bank has approximately 80 professionals and has offices in midtown Manhattan and other senior team members located throughout the country. The firm's three Managing Partners each have approximately 30 years of investment banking and related Wall Street experience having been responsible for the origination, negotiation, structuring and closing of M&A transactions and equity and debt securities placements at the Firm. The firm's Managing Directors' former employers include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Deutsche Bank. The firm focuses on providing sell-side and buy-side M&A services and raising equity & debt capital primarily for privately owned and lightly traded publicly listed midsize companies across a variety of industries including consumer products, business services, technology, healthcare and industrial / manufacturing. The firm's clients are primarily U.S. based. The firm, which has been the recipient of numerous "deal of the year" awards over the years, has completed over 300 transactions with cumulative transaction values in excess of $3 billion. The firm has excess deal flow and is looking for seasoned bankers who can immediately help execute these deals as well as originate new ones. The firm's compensation structure is commissioned base and has an extremely high payout to its senior professionals who originate and / or execute client transactions while at the same time, providing significant resources to its team members and fostering a highly collaborative work environment.
About the Role:
The firm is seeking senior bankers with the following profile:
Responsibilities:
- 10+ years experience as an investment banker (ideally with some of that time frame at other boutique firms);
- A track record of: (a) sourcing deals (including the ability to originate leads, distinguish compelling deals from also-ran transactions, market the firm to the potential client and manage the engagement letter negotiation process), (b) marketing deals (the candidate will have strong communication skills both oral and written and a willingness to personally contact potential counterparties for deals), and (c) completing transactions (the candidate will have strong execution skills including compiling marketing materials, structuring transactions, and negotiating transactions including bringing deals back on track when they run into the inevitable road blocks);
- Capable of effectively leading multiple day-to-day client relationships with the CEOs / business owners over long periods of time and multiple client engagements;
- Effective at marketing transactions to private equity, hedge funds, banks, strategic buyers, etc. (ideal candidate also has strong existing relationships with said parties but not mandatory)
- Self-motivated, personable (both with clients and colleagues) and enjoys networking;
- Strong work ethic
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