Experience Analyst, Business

Office: Boston, MA; 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.

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 Analysts 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 do not need an MBA to advance through the ranks. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple clients simultaneously on both the sell-side to global players and newco opportunities to create optionality for clients diversifying your experience and providing a highly dynamic environment. The hours are more manageable than an 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.

The focus for the Analyst is to play a key role in executing the Firm’s engagements. Our engagements range from executing strategic partnership deals, M&A transactions, and creating Asset-based newcos. Our Analysts assist in identifying target partners and making sure all outreach is coordinated, weekly client updates, and board update materials, producing deal marketing materials, financial valuation and comparable transactions analysis, and deal modeling in support of negations.

Analysts will receive significant responsibility and ownership over their work, including multiple opportunities to present to both the firm and clients. Newcos involve creating management presentations, exploring use of proceeds, creating term sheets and valuation analysis for asset originators, drafting investment memos, and assisting with the financing process to launch the company. Business development activities are essential to furthering our growth.

An Analyst will oversee the maintenance and updating of our proprietary databases used for our quarterly market conditions as well as preparing thought leadership and analytics.

Our senior deal team is dedicated to the professional growth of our Analysts. Each engagement provides a new learning opportunity, and we aim to vary the team members assigned to new clients so that everyone has the chance to work with different colleagues while still gaining exposure to different transactions.

Experience in life science consulting, investment banking, venture capital industry or internal biotech business/corporate development is a requirement. We are looking for someone who is currently working in a life science strategy consulting firm (new opportunity prioritization; partnering and M&A strategy; commercial due diligence) or healthcare group of an investment bank and is frustrated by either not seeing their consulting projects through to execution or find banking or equity research too high level and transactional without the ability to impact a company in more material ways.

Handing a deliverable to the client and wishing them good luck is not satisfying nor is simply making decks / memos and handing execution to the capital markets or M&A teams. Additionally, if you are in a business development or corporate development role and miss or long for the intellectual stimulation of working in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects but also want to “do deals,” this job is for you.

Professional and Academic Prowess
. All our team members have different strengths that contribute to the success of our firm.…