Job description
Location: Zurich
Work Pattern Percentage: 80-100%
Join us in helping clients to unlock their full value creation potential during their most challenging M&A transactions!
Our M&A practice features a dedicated group of highly qualified individuals. Within this practice, the Corporate Finance Advisory Team provides clients with financial and strategic advice throughout M&A transactions, from scope definition and deal execution to the signing of transaction agreements. Our senior M&A advisors have a long track record of completed deals and are thoroughly trained in bulge bracket investment banks and Big4 corporate finance teams.
As an incoming Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead live engagements and make a real contribution to transactions as well as deal generation from day one. You will specialize in one of our core industry pillars: Life Sciences & Healthcare (LS&HC).
How you can make an impact
1. Drive transactions in the Swiss and international marketplace, providing sell-side, buy-side, and capital raise advisory services to our discerning LS&HC clientele in Switzerland and abroad
2. Act as a key contact with senior-level client staff on demanding engagements, project-manage the transaction, and handle the day-to-day client communication
3. Lead and execute the full deal lifecycle, including pre-deal strategic advisory, preparation of marketing documents (e.g., teasers and confidential information memoranda), development of financial and valuation models, outreach to potential acquirers and investors, tiering and prioritization of offers, coordination of due diligence processes, and advice on transaction structuring, commercial terms and negotiation of transaction documentation
4. Drive business development activities and pitches to secure the deal pipeline of the future
5. Manage, coach and fuel the professional development of junior team members
6. Be part of a global network of M&A specialists and work in a highly professional, diverse, and exciting work environment
7. Develop and broaden your network of clients, prospective clients, and transaction counterparties while working autonomously under the guidance of an engagement director
Who we are looking for
8. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Life Sciences
9. 3-5 years of prior work experience in the LS&HC sector (consulting, industry, venture capital etc.), ideally with previous exposure to M&A transactions
10. Business acumen and/or financial expertise obtained through formal education, work experience, and/or proven interest and vocation
11. You are an open and curious person with strong analytical and interpersonal skills
12. You can cope well in fast-paced and challenging environments, having the ability to handle and prioritize deliverables across multiple workstreams with minimum supervision
13. You are used to providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members
14. Fluent English; additional optional plus: knowledge of German
Your team
Become part of a diverse, multinational, and highly motivated team of 15+ at our Geneva and Zurich offices. We will help you grow both personally and professionally: through our trainings, mentoring programmes and on-the-job learning, but also by connecting you with your colleagues across other business lines and member firms.