Job Summary
As a Vice President in the Shareholder Engagement and M&A Capital Markets team, you will leverage your experience as a seasoned Investment Banking professional to develop strong relationships with corporates and other advisers, including law firms, public relations, and proxy solicitors. You’ll work on blending capital knowledge with markets mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, split-offs, and on helping corporates to deal with shareholder activism. You will play a central role in advising clients with respect to engaging with their shareholders and monitoring their trading activity, including shareholder activism and corporate defense.
Job Responsibilities
- Acting as the primary day-to-day client point of contact on live projects
- Reviewing and coordinating the analytic work of junior bankers to move marketing/execution process forward
- Refining marketing/execution materials for maximum client impact
- Identifying potential risks to a deal successfully completing and helping to explain and mitigate the issues
- Working across industries in partnership with other members of the investment bank
- Liaising with external parties on transactions (eg. lawyers, public relations firms, investors)
- Scripting client dialogue and prepping management/board members for interactions
- Understanding market dynamics that may move client’s stock prices, and interpreting the price moves once made
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Prior work experience in an investment banking front office role.
- Experience in training junior bankers
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with specific ability to communicate concepts and ideas concisely and defend their validity
- Very strong quantitative and analytical skills (including Excel modelling and valuation work)
- Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines, and have the aptitude to synthesize large amounts of information and to develop innovative solutions
- Adaptability, able to manage projects independently and be ready to assume a high level of responsibility as a member of a team
- Ability to comfortably interact with clients in a professional and mature manner
- Excellent understanding of financial, legal and reputational risks facing large integrated investment banks in today's environment