Associate - Investment Banking - Los Angeles

Role Overview

Ducera Partners is seeking to expand its team in its Los Angeles office with investment banking team members to assist in deal execution and commercial activities across the broad range of products Ducera offers.  Assignments may include mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory, restructuring, liability management, capital markets, and growth capital, and frequently involve exposure to new issue advisory services (including ABS related issuances), strategic advisory assignments associated with contingent financial risk and natural disaster, government and public-sector clients.

Team members can expect exposure to assignments focused on the western market, integration on assignments with teams in Los Angeles (primary), San Francisco and New York, and activity driven exposure to advisory opportunities in topical industries and products. Recent power, utility, government and public policy assignments have included advising elected officials and regulators on wildfires/natural disasters, liability frameworks and capital markets implications, and new issuance advisory assignments including achieving the lowest cost on new security issuances.  This role provides experienced investment banking professionals the opportunity to operate at the intersection of corporate finance, strategic advisory, public policy, and capital markets, applying rigorous financial analysis and transaction execution skills to assignments.

Responsibilities

Team members are expected to work on a wide range of assignments across active products and industries (including those identified above). Work will include, but is not limited to:

• Working closely with senior bankers and clients in a lean team setting, demonstrating initiative, ownership, judgment, and professionalism while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Coordinating complex, time-sensitive workstreams across internal teams and external parties, including clients, legal advisors, and other transaction participants.
• Actively participating in transaction execution, developing and reviewing financial analyses and models, developing and reviewing transaction structures, financing alternatives, implementation paths, and scenario analyses as well as supporting senior bankers in client-facing interactions, commercial activities and deal execution.
• Preparing, reviewing, and presenting client materials, including pitch books, strategic advisory presentations, transaction presentations, recommendations, and review of capital markets, ratings and credit perspectives to support discussions with clients and other stakeholders. Work involves developing and presenting perspectives, informed by reviewing substantial amounts of content, third party perspectives and recommendations, legislative and regulatory documents, credit and equity research, market reference points and internal experience.
• Monitoring, tracking, interpreting and informing team on market activity and industry activity, including tracking and maintaining database of comparable transactions, fundamental credit and cost of capital implications, alternative approaches to execution, investor lists, and developments which will inform strategies, future activity, and client recommendations.
• Maintain internal transaction and pipeline tracking tools, ensuring accuracy and organization in a fast-paced, multi-mandate environment, tracking news, legislative and regulatory activity and monitoring for potential opportunities. Over time, take an active role in covering clients and developing business development efforts.
• Manage day-to-day transaction execution workstreams, including senior banker and clients requests and analysis on time with strong attention to detail.
• Providing mentorship, training, and guidance to junior team members.

Qualifications

Ducera Partners seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, self-starting, team-oriented, intelligent and have excellent academic, leadership and extracurricular records. Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong background in finance, accounting, economics as well as pos