Finance & Banking Associate, Corporate Finance

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Boston, MA; must currently reside in the Boston area or be willing to relocate there before starting. Must have U.S. Citizenship or Green card.

Locust Walk is a global investment bank that partners with founders, executives, and board members to drive strategic transactions and create newcos to finance innovation. Our 17-year history of success was forged through our Co-founder Mentality TM focused on innovators, our local on the ground presence in Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Beijing, and our deep understanding of how science and data translate into actionable transactions and business strategy.

We are proud to announce the launch of Banyan Bio Innovations, an investment firm powered by Locust Walk that leverages global sourcing and on-the-ground presence in the U.S., China, and Japan to create clinical-stage companies around best or first-in-class drug candidates. Banyan Bio deploys a veteran centralized development team and turnkey infrastructure to optimize clinical and regulatory execution, guiding each asset through key value inflection points.

Banyan Bio’s differentiated and collaborative approach ensures that the drug’s originator, investors, our New Cos, and patients all win together.

The launch of Banyan Bio means that joining Locust Walk today puts you at the center of both a leading life sciences investment bank and a differentiated investment firm building the next generation of biotech companies — a combination unlike anything else in the industry.

If you are looking to build your career with a fast-growing investment bank and newco creation shop with significant upside potential in position, responsibility, and compensation, we’re looking for you. Our Associates have a strong passion for life sciences and all know this is the career they want long term; in fact, this role is "Partner Track" as we look to find the future leaders of the firm from within.

You will have the opportunity to work with multiple clients simultaneously on sell-side transactions to global biopharma and on Banyan Bio’s New Co opportunities — co-founding asset-centric companies around clinically validated programs sourced globally and advancing them through defined value inflection points. This dual mandate creates optionality for clients and unparalleled breadth of experience for you, diversifying your skill set across advisory, company creation, and clinical-stage investing.

The hours are more manageable than a typical Wall Street investment bank, the work more execution oriented than a consulting firm, and the atmosphere and work environment more fast paced than working inside a company with a collaborative approach.

The focus for the Associate is to play a key role in executing the Firm’s engagements and newcos. Our projects range from executing strategic partnership deals, M&A transactions, and creating clinical stage Asset-based newcos through Banyan Bio, our newly launched investment firm that forms clinical-stage New Cos around high-potential drug candidates sourced from the U.S., China, and Japan.

For our banking deals, Associate is responsible for leading execution and overseeing deliverables and analysis generated by Analysts, identifying, and managing discussions with target partners, reviewing and driving financial analysis, and supporting deal negotiations and closing. They conduct outreach to potential partners, coordinate partner conversations, and play an active role in generating interest in and concluding a deal. The Associate is often tasked with managing all aspects of the day-to-day execution of the deal, including leading update calls with the client, and overseeing all aspects of the Analyst’s work.

When times get particularly busy, sometimes the Associate must level up or down depending on team capacity so a true team player who is flexible and growth oriented is key. Associates will receive significant responsibility and ownership over their work,…