Apply for Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES · Full-time
Role Overview
The firm is recruiting an Associate to its Mergers & Acquisitions practice in New York. Associates own substantive workstreams within live transactions — financial analysis, materials production, diligence stream management, structuring input, and direct counterparty engagement. The role is held to mandate-level accountability under the supervision of senior practitioners; Associates are expected to operate as the technical backbone of every transaction they touch.
The practice acts for privately held businesses, founder-led enterprises, family offices, and portfolio companies, with deal flow originated through the firm's principal network and origination partner programme rather than through traditional pitching cycles. Mandates routinely span technology, real estate, energy, healthcare, industrials, and consumer sectors, and routinely cross jurisdictions across the firm's nine offices.
The role is suited to candidates with prior investment banking or principal investing experience who are ready to step out of an analyst-style apprenticeship and into substantive workstream ownership. The platform provides exposure that, in volume and quality, is materially different from what is available at larger institutions; the corollary is that the bar for what the firm expects is correspondingly higher.
What This Role Demands
- Mandate-level ownership of complex workstreams without daily oversight
- Technical depth across modelling, structuring, and commercial considerations
- Comfort engaging directly with principals on the client side and with sophisticated counterparties on the other
- Calm under the dynamics of contested or accelerated processes
- Discretion as default; the firm's clients audit advisory teams on conduct, not just on credentials
Requirements
- 3–6 years' relevant experience at a leading advisory firm, investment bank, or principal investor
- Demonstrated workstream ownership on substantive transactions or mandates
- Strong technical foundation in the relevant practice area
- Cross-border execution experience strongly preferred
- Established credibility with clients, counterparties, or external counsel at the level appropriate to seniority
- Right to work in the United States