Analyst - Investment Banking - Los Angeles

Ducera Partners LLC | Posted Feb 16

Location:

California

Ducera Partners is a leading, independent investment banking and strategic advisory firm. We take a collaborative, partnership-based approach to deliver superior results to our clients across a variety of advisory verticals, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, restructuring and liability management, capital solutions, and risk solutions. Ducera leverages its extensive experience with an execution-focused approach to advise clients through pivotal moments where judgment, creativity, and precision are critical.

Founded in 2015, Ducera has advised on over $925 billion in transactions across a variety of industries and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Stamford.

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.

• 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 work streams 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, transaction structures, financing alternatives, implementation paths and scenario analyses, and 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 reviews of capital markets, ratings and credit perspectives to support discussions with clients and other stakeholders.
• Monitoring, tracking, interpreting and informing the team on market activity and industry activity, including maintaining a database of comparable transactions, fundamental credit and cost of capital implications, alternative execution approaches, investor lists and developments that inform strategies and client recommendations.
• Maintaining 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, and, over time, taking an active role in covering clients and developing business‑development efforts.
• Managing day‑to‑day transaction execution work streams, including senior banker and client requests and analysis on time with strong attention to detail.

• Highly motivated, self‑starting, team‑oriented professionals with excellent academic, leadership and extracurricular records.
• Strong background in finance, accounting, economics and excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project‑management skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience in investment banking with a strong technical and corporate finance foundation.
• Proficient in preparing client presentations and analyzing company and transaction comparables.
• Highly collaborative, with a strong work ethic, attention to detail and the maturity to interface directly with clients, investors and senior deal bankers.
• Proactive self‑starter with an entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable operating within a lean organization and…