Associate - Investment Banking - Los Angeles

Overview

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 $850 billion in transactions across a variety of industries and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Stamford.

Role Overview

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. Recent power, utility, government and public policy assignments have included advising elected officials and regulators on wildfires/natural disasters, liability frameworks and capital markets implications, and new issuance advisory assignments including achieving the lowest cost on new security issuances.

This role provides experienced investment banking professionals the opportunity to operate at the intersection of corporate finance, strategic advisory, public policy, and capital markets, applying rigorous financial analysis and transaction execution skills to assignments.

• 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, developing and reviewing transaction structures, financing alternatives, implementation paths, and scenario analyses as well as 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 review of capital markets, ratings and credit perspectives to support discussions with clients and other stakeholders. Work involves developing and presenting perspectives, informed by reviewing substantial amounts of content, third party perspectives and recommendations, legislative and regulatory documents, credit and equity research, market reference points and internal experience.
• Monitoring, tracking, interpreting and informing team on market activity and industry activity, including tracking and maintaining database of comparable transactions, fundamental credit and cost of capital implications, alternative approaches to execution, investor lists, and developments which will inform strategies, future activity, and client recommendations.
• Maintain 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. Over time, take an active role in covering clients and developing business development efforts.
• Manage day-to-day transaction execution work streams, including…