Restructuring Analyst

The Role

Lord Abbett seeks a highly motivated, team‑oriented individual to join its Taxable Fixed Income group as a Restructuring Analyst to focus on stressed, distressed, and in‑and‑out‑of‑court restructurings across all asset classes. This individual will be part of the Leveraged Credit Team and will interact with investment professionals across the entire Taxable Fixed Income organization. The role provides an opportunity to directly impact the management of fixed‑income portfolios in a highly flat and dynamic organization, and we are looking for an individual who can grow into a leadership role as we continue to build out our distressed and restructuring capabilities.

• Collaborate with portfolio management, research, trading, and legal to help oversee stressed, distressed and restructuring situations to maximize outcomes.
• Support the execution of in‑and‑out‑of‑court restructuring, liability management exercises, and workout situations.
• Build out in‑depth credit, financial scenario, recovery, and capital structure analyses.
• Build and maintain relationships with financial advisors, external legal counsel, and other market participants.
• Assist credit research analyst team with stressed and distressed analysis.
• Track and communicate deal‑related industry trends and internal reporting to the broader team, department and key firm stakeholders.
• Identify new opportunistic credit and money opportunities.
• Actively monitor positions and industry dynamics.
• Maintain and improve repeatable framework and processes around stressed and distressed investments.

• 3‑5+ years of credit analysis with stressed/distressed experience, preferably on the buy side, sell‑side distressed desk or restructuring investment banking.
• Prior experience should include participating in the execution of restructuring transactions.
• High motivation to learn, grow, and develop as an investor in a collaborative, team‑oriented environment.
• Excellent quantitative, communication, and investment management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and collaborate with multiple constituencies with divergent objectives.
• Ability to articulate investment objectives in a clear and concise manner with internal and external constituents.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills with a proficiency in scenario‑based financial modeling.
• BA/BS degree required; MBA degree, CFA designation viewed positively but not required.

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

• Principles‑Based – We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance‑Oriented – We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose‑Driven – We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.

We have been ranked #1 in Barron’s Best Fund Families for 2024 and have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for five consecutive years.

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $150,000 – $185,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well‑being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett.

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified…