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Investment Banking / M & A

This section contains all our M&A (mergers and acquisitions) and investment banking jobs. The term 'investment banking' means different things to different people. At its most broad it means all areas of an investment bank - from sales and trading, to capital markets, to corporate finance and M&A, risk, compliance and operations. Alternatively, it can be interpreted as both capital markets and M&A. Here, we are defining job listings fairly narrowly: as M&A, but with an eye to the financing and infrastructure required to make an M&A deal happen.

As the name suggests, a job in M&A requires advising client companies on mergers (where two companies join up as equals) and acquisitions (where one firm takes over part or all of another).

Various different kinds of organisations are involved in the M&A market. The biggest investment banks typically advise and facilitate M&A deals worth $100m plus. Smaller deals are typically dealt with by advisory boutiques or by the Big Four (and other) accounting firms.

There's a relatively straight route up the ladder for a career in M&A. You start out in an investment analyst job for three years, move up to associate (again for three years), then become vice president, director and managing director - although the job titles may vary depending upon the bank you work for. Most M&A careers focus on a particular sector, eg, consumer, financials, oil and gas, technology, media and telecommunications.

Senior M&A bankers spend their time cultivating relationships with potential clients and originating business. Traditionally, M&A has been about advising clients on potential target companies and the dynamics of an M&A deal. Increasingly, however, senior deal originators in investment banks are 'relationship' professionals who advise clients on the broad range of products offered by their employer and on the financing required for a deal - and not just the deal itself.

At a junior analyst level, M&A is about spreadsheets, marketing documents and financial models. Junior M&A bankers rarely attend client meetings. Instead, they spend their time evaluating the financial information of target companies and putting together pitchbooks. These are marketing documents that banks use to sell themselves and outline their ideas for which companies a client should be buying or which it should be selling to.

While analysts are at the bottom of the hierarchy of M&A roles, the associates above them also rank fairly low. The key difference is that M&A associates have slightly more responsibility for transactions and projects. They also get junior analysts to do some of the work for them.

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Associate - Private Equity	BlackStreet Capital Competitive	USA-MD-Chevy Chase	21 May 13

Washington, DC area based private equity fund, focused on leveraged buyouts of underperforming, lower middle m...

Investment Banking Associate - Consumer Group	Michael Page International - US 90k - 110k base salary + bonus + benefit...	USA-OH-Cleveland	21 May 13

Our client is a middle market investment bank.

Investment Banking Associate - Cleveland, OH	Michael Page International - US 90k - 110k base + bonus + benefits + rel...	USA-OH-Cleveland	21 May 13

Our client is a middle market investment bank.

Investment Banking Associate - Consumer M&A	Not Disclosed Highly Competitive Base Salary and Bonus	USA-NY-New York City	21 May 13

Leading Middle Market Investment Bank seek a Associate in the Consumer M&A group. Investment Banking experien...

Investment Banking Associate - M&A	Not Disclosed Highy Competitive Base Salary and Bonus	USA-NY-New York City	21 May 13

Leading Boutique seeks and Investment Banking Associate to joing to team to work on high profiled M&A transact...

Associates / Senior Associates, Strategic Investment Group, New York / London - 3684 /5G	Private Equity Recruitment Competitive	USA-NY-New York City	21 May 13

Great opportunity for an analyst / associate passionate about financial technology to join a newly established...

Managing Partner	AXA Equitable DOE	USA-PA-Pittsburgh	21 May 13

AXA is building a new entrepreneurial firm in Pittsburgh exclusively focused on supporting the financial plann...

Managing Partner	AXA Equitable DOE	USA-NC-Charlotte	21 May 13

AXA is building a new entrepreneurial firm in Pittsburgh exclusively focused on supporting the financial plann...

Front Office C# Market Access Developer - Arbitrage/Volatility Experience Needed - Manhattan Leading Investment Management Firm	Selby Jennings Circa $130,000 - $150,000 plus bonus and...	USA-NY-New York City	21 May 13

Front Office C# Market Access Developer ? Arbitrage/Volatility Experience Needed - Manhattan Leading Investmen...

Debt Capital Markets - Leveraged Finance Sr. Associate/1st year VP	Macquarie Competitive	USA-NY-New York City	21 May 13

We are currently searching for a Senior Associate or Vice President for our Debt Capital Markets Group and Fi...

M & A Analyst	Not Disclosed 70000-95000	USA-NY-New York City	20 May 13

M & A Advisory firm in NY is looking for a dynamic individual to join there team

Research Manager (Investment Banking)	Not Disclosed 75-80K BASE + BONUS	USA-MA-Boston	20 May 13

COMPANY: GERSON LEHRMAN GROUP The Tech, Media, and Telecom (TMT) Research Manager in BOSTON will work direc...

Investment Banking Analyst - M&A	Not Disclosed Highly Competive Base Salary and Bonus	USA-NY-New York City	20 May 13

Elite Boutique M&A firm seeks and Investment Banking Analyst with 6months to -2 year of Investment Banking, R...

Peoplesoft Payroll Operations Specialist	HAYS Competitive	Canada-ON-Toronto	20 May 13