Investment Banking Associate (Telecommunications

Key Responsibilities

• Originating and developing client relationships across telecom operators, infrastructure owners and financial sponsors active in the sector.
• Preparing pitch materials, sector thought pieces and business development presentations tailored to telecommunications and digital infrastructure themes.
• Screening prospective clients and evaluating new M&A and capital raising mandate opportunities within the sector.
• Negotiating and securing new advisory mandates.
• Building and reviewing financial and valuation models, including sector-specific approaches such as tower and fibre cash-flow analysis, tenancy and lease-up assumptions, and infrastructure-style returns.
• Preparing information memoranda, teasers and other transaction marketing materials.
• Supporting negotiations on behalf of clients and coordinating closely with legal, technical and regulatory advisers throughout transaction execution.
• Managing transactions from origination through to completion, including M&A and equity and debt capital raisings.
• Maintaining and expanding relationships with existing clients and specialist telecom and infrastructure investors.
• Collaborating closely with colleagues across company`s IMAP’s regional offices.
• Contributing to firm-wide business development and telecommunications sector coverage initiatives.
• Mentoring and supporting junior members of the team.
• The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the growth of the firm’s telecommunications franchise and to broader business development initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years of investment banking or corporate finance experience and must have prior transaction experience within the telecommunications, digital infrastructure or TMT sector. The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong technical capabilities across financial analysis, valuation and transaction structuring, combined with a working understanding of telecom‑specific metrics and how infrastructure, operating and digital assets are valued.
• A proven ability to build relationships with corporate clients, financial sponsors and infrastructure investors, and to originate and execute mandates.
• Familiarity with the deal types relevant to the sector, including M&A, equity capital raising and debt and infrastructure financing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to working alongside colleagues across the firm’s regional offices.

Experience with in an investment bank, corporate finance advisory, private equity or infrastructure fund, with sector exposure to telecommunications, towers, fibre, data centres or digital infrastructure considered a strong advantage.