Apply for Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES · Full-time
Role Overview
The firm is recruiting a Vice President to its Mergers & Acquisitions practice in New York. Vice Presidents lead transaction execution end-to-end — managing diligence streams across multiple workstreams, negotiating commercial and structural terms with counterparty advisers, supervising junior team members, and serving as the day-to-day point of contact for principal clients. Vice Presidents at the firm are not implementation managers; they hold the substantive judgement on the transactions they lead.
The practice acts for privately held businesses, family enterprises, portfolio companies, and founder-led companies on transactions of significant commercial and personal consequence to their principals. The firm operates without a traditional MD-rainmaker bottleneck — Vice Presidents are expected to develop genuine relationships with clients and counterparties from the moment they take seat, with the corresponding latitude that comes with holding the substantive work.
The role is suited to senior practitioners who have outgrown the supervised execution layer of larger institutions and want a platform on which judgement and ownership are concentrated rather than distributed across approval chains. The infrastructure, the network, and the brand sit behind every Vice President at the firm. The expectation in return is that they hold the work.
What This Role Demands
- Demonstrated transaction leadership across complex, multi-party processes
- Negotiation credibility on commercial and structural terms with senior counterparties
- The judgement to navigate stakeholder dynamics, principal sensitivities, and process pathology
- Substantive supervision and development of junior team members
- The temperament to operate at principal-to-principal level on the client side
Requirements
- 6–10 years' relevant experience including substantive transaction or mandate leadership
- Established credibility with clients, counterparties, and external counsel
- Demonstrated track record of independent execution on complex matters
- Cross-border fluency expected as a baseline
- Substantive supervisory experience with junior team members
- Right to work in the United States