Responsibilities

Ducera advises clients in a variety of complex and transformative transactions. Our professionals, with roots in complex corporate finance, offer independent advice to stakeholders in a broad range of situations. 

Our Ducera Growth Ventures (“DGV”) platform invests in growth, venture and other investments on behalf of leading corporations and institutions. DGV’s investment approach looks to maximize risk adjusted returns through complex investment structuring, deep business/industry diligence, and highly active post-investment strategic support to portfolio companies as they execute their business plan. Associates play an integral role in the underwriting of investments and managing of portfolio companies in the post-investment value creation.

Our mergers and acquisitions services include advice related to buy- and sell-side advisory; fairness opinions and special committee representation; merger advisory; cross-border advisory; takeover defense and shareholder advisory; and divestitures, asset sales, and spin-offs. As an Associate, you will be involved in the development, structuring, and financing of a wide range of transactions and will regularly attend internal and client meetings, negotiations and due diligence sessions.

Associate work will include, but is not limited to:

• Ducera Growth Ventures Responsibilities:
• Supporting in the negotiation, structuring, and evaluation of investment transactions.
• Conducting deep business diligence, including leading calls with investment target management teams and their outside advisors/consultants.
• Conducting industry research utilizing traditional finance softwares and Ducera network.
• Preparing investment committee materials, other LP/Partner materials, and other ongoing portfolio management materials.
• Executing complex financial analyses, including valuation models, detailed financial forecasts, investment structure alternatives, monetization alternatives, and others.
• Guiding and assisting portfolio company management teams in executing post-investment value creation.
• Mergers & Acquisition Responsibilities:
• Producing analyses and models on leveraged buyouts, discounted cash flows, mergers and acquisitions accretion and dilution, and multiple valuation.
• Preparing memoranda for internal and external use.
• Assisting in the execution and coordination of complex transactions and time-sensitive processes, including due diligence and valuation analysis.
• Drafting client marketing and pitch materials.
• Maintaining active involvement and participation in client facing situations and negotiations.
• Providing mentorship and development to junior staff.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will prove to be highly motivated and team-oriented with excellent leadership records. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong background in financial modeling, finance, and accounting as well as possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project management skills, and exceptional attention to detail.

In addition, qualified candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent)
• Interest in pursuing a career in investing in innovative growth stage companies
• Knowledge of and experience in mergers and acquisitions 
• Completion of a profile on Suited to further assist in an evaluation of your candidacy: Creating a Suited Profile

Additional Information

Expected annualized base salary range: $200,000 – $250,000

The annual base salary range reflects the low and high targets of the estimated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary an employee in this role receives may vary depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: work location, job-related knowledge, and prior experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components.

Responsibilities

The Capital Solutions group advises companies as they navigate complex capital markets decisions. Clients rely on Ducera to structure and execute tailored financing solutions across credit, equity, structured equity, and hybrid capital. Drawing on deep transaction experience and an extensive global investor network, we help clients evaluate all available alternatives and execute optimal outcomes. Ducera has advised corporate and sponsor clients on a wide range of transactions, including acquisition financings, dividend recapitalizations, stressed and special situations financings, project finance, structured products, growth capital raises, and minority equity investments. Our integrated approach to structuring, capital provider access, and execution has made Ducera a trusted partner for clients’ capital needs.

A Senior Analyst / Junior Associate on our Capital Solutions team is expected to:

• Play an integral role in the origination and execution of financing mandates, including primary capital raises, refinancings, recapitalizations, and merger and acquisition financings, while working closely with senior bankers, clients, and investors.
• Draft and coordinate marketing materials to drive origination and execution efforts, including client pitches, capital markets updates, confidential information memoranda, investor presentations, and other ad-hoc client-facing materials.
• Build, refine, and maintain detailed financial models and credit analyses used directly in client materials, lender diligence, and financing negotiations.
• Prepare and interpret company and transaction comparables to assess market pricing, leverage tolerance, covenant structures, and investor appetite.
• Perform fundamental credit analysis, including assessment of business risk, cash flow sustainability, leverage and coverage metrics, covenant headroom, and downside scenarios.
• Manage day-to-day transaction execution workstreams, including data room setup and maintenance, diligence coordination, Q&A tracking, and interaction with lenders, investors, and other counterparties.
• Support investor outreach and capital formation efforts by maintaining investor databases, tracking feedback and indications of interest, and assisting with capital allocation analyses.
• Monitor financing market conditions, comparable transactions, and investor activity to inform financing strategies and client recommendations.
• Maintain internal transaction and pipeline tracking tools, ensuring accuracy and organization in a fast-paced, multi-mandate environment.
• Over time, take an active role in covering clients (financial sponsors, public companies, private corporates) and investors (alternative asset managers, direct lenders, credit hedge funds, etc.).
• Work closely with senior bankers and clients in a lean team setting, demonstrating ownership, judgment, and professionalism while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will prove to be highly motivated and team-oriented with excellent leadership records. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong background in financial modeling, finance, and accounting as well as possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project management skills, and exceptional attention to detail. Additional qualifications include but are not limited to:

• Strong technical and corporate finance foundation, including detailed financial statement analysis, cash flow modeling, and the development of fully integrated financial projection models to support financing transactions.
• Intermediate working knowledge of the leveraged finance ecosystem, including leveraged loans, high yield bonds, and private credit, with a solid understanding of various capital structures, financing alternatives, and interpretation of credit agreements / indentures.
• Demonstrated proficiency in preparing and analyzing company and transaction comparables across leveraged loan, high yield, and private credit markets to assess pricing, structure, and market receptivity.
• Fundamental credit underwriting capabilities, including evaluation of business and industry risk, cash flow sustainability, leverage and coverage metrics, covenant headroom, and downside sensitivities.
• Experience supporting and executing capital markets and financing transaction processes, including preparation of lender and investor marketing materials, management presentations, data room coordination, and investor Q&A workflows.
• Strong organizational and process-management skills, with the ability to utilize technology and data tools to build and maintain financing databases, investor and lender relationships, market comps, and transaction pipeline tracking.
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented professional with a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and the maturity to interface directly with clients, investors, and senior deal bankers.
• Proactive self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit that is comfortable operating within a lean organization and a desire to play an integral role in business development efforts / strategies.
• Completion of a profile on Suited to further assist in an evaluation of your candidacy: Creating a Suited Profile

Additional Information

To be considered, candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) and extensive knowledge of and background in capital markets.

Expected annualized base salary range of $125,000 – 200,000.

The annual base salary range reflects the low and high targets of the estimated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary an employee in this role receives may vary depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to work location, job-related knowledge, and prior experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components.

Responsibilities

As an Associate, you will work on a wide range of transactions including restructurings, recapitalizations, acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, leveraged buyouts, and joint ventures. Associates are expected to be involved in the development, structuring and financing of transactions and regularly attend internal and client meetings, negotiations and due diligence sessions.

Associate work will include, but is not limited to:

• Develop various analyses, including: distress trigger analyses, operating models, recovery waterfalls, transaction capital structure models, valuations (DCF, M&A comps, and trading comps), and other situation specific analyses;
• Prepare and discuss comprehensive marketing materials (including case studies, CIMs, pitch book presentations, and teasers);
• Prepare memoranda for internal and external use;
• Evaluate terms of credit agreements and indentures to determine restructuring alternatives and covenant compliance;
• Organize meetings with relevant stakeholders, including legal, financial, and operational advisors;
• Prepare financial and strategic buyers lists for various investment opportunities;
• Attend diligence sessions and assist with in-person site visits; and assist with coordination and sharing of due diligence amongst various parties;
• Maintain active involvement and participation in client facing situations and negotiations;
• Actively participate in intern training and recruiting efforts; provide mentorship and development to junior staff.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will prove to be highly motivated and team-oriented with excellent leadership records. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong background in financial modeling, finance, and accounting as well as possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project management skills, and exceptional attention to detail.

In addition, qualified candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent)
• Extensive knowledge of and background in investment banking, preferably with a restructuring focus
• Completion of a profile on Suited to further assist in an evaluation of your candidacy: Creating a Suited Profile

Additional Information

Expected annualized base salary range: $200,000 – $250,000.

The annual base salary range reflects the low and high targets of the estimated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary an employee in this role receives may vary depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: work location, job-related knowledge, and prior experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components.

Responsibilities

Ducera advises clients in a variety of complex and transformative transactions. Our professionals, with roots in complex corporate finance, offer independent advice to stakeholders in a broad range of situations. Our services include advice related to buy- and sell-side advisory; fairness opinions and special committee representation; merger advisory; cross-border advisory; takeover defense and shareholder advisory; and divestitures, asset sales, and spin-offs.

As an Associate, you will be involved in the development, structuring and financing of a wide range of transactions, and will regularly attend internal and client meetings, negotiations and due diligence sessions.

Associate work will include, but is not limited to:

• Producing analysis and models on leveraged buyouts, discounted cash flows, mergers and acquisitions accretion and dilution, and multiple valuation.
• Preparing memoranda for internal and external use.
• Analyzing financial data, and conducting research of targeted industries.
• Assisting in the execution and coordination of complex transactions and time-sensitive processes, including due diligence and valuation analysis.
• Drafting client marketing and pitch materials.
• Maintaining active involvement and participation in client facing situations and negotiations.
• Providing mentorship and development to junior staff.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will prove to be highly motivated and team-oriented with excellent leadership records. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong background in financial modeling, finance, and accounting as well as possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project management skills, and exceptional attention to detail.

In addition, qualified candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent)
• Knowledge of and experience in sell-side mergers and acquisitions
• Completion of a profile on Suited to further assist in an evaluation of your candidacy: Creating a Suited Profile

Additional Information

Expected annualized base salary range: $200,000 – $250,000

The annual base salary range reflects the low and high targets of the estimated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary an employee in this role receives may vary depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: work location, job-related knowledge, and prior experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components.

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.

Responsibilities

Team members are expected to work on a wide range of assignments across active products and industries (including those identified above). Work will include, but is not limited to:

• 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 workstreams 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 workstreams, including senior banker and clients requests and analysis on time with strong attention to detail.
• Providing mentorship, training, and guidance to junior team members.

Qualifications

Ducera Partners seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, self-starting, team-oriented, intelligent and have excellent academic, leadership and extracurricular records. Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong background in finance, accounting, economics as well as possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project management skills, and exceptional attention to detail. Additional qualifications include but are not limited to:

• Experience in investment banking with strong technical and corporate finance foundation.
• Strong organizational and process-management skills, with the ability to utilize technology and data tools to build and maintain databases, investor and lender relationships, market comps, and transaction pipeline tracking.
• Demonstrated proficiency in preparing client presentations and analyzing company and transaction comparables.
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented professional with a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and the maturity to interface directly with clients, investors, and senior deal bankers.
• Proactive self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit that is comfortable operating within a lean organization and a desire to play an integral role in business development efforts / strategies across topical industries and products.
• Completion of a profile on Suited to further assist in an evaluation of your candidacy: Creating a Suited Profile

Additional Information

Expected annualized base salary range: $200,000 – $250,000.

The annual base salary range reflects the low and high targets of the estimated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary an employee in this role receives may vary depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: work location, job-related knowledge, and prior experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components.

Responsibilities

Ducera advises clients in a variety of complex and transformative transactions. Our professionals, with roots in complex corporate finance, offer independent advice to stakeholders in a broad range of situations. Our services include advice related to buy- and sell-side advisory; fairness opinions and special committee representation; merger advisory; cross-border advisory; takeover defense and shareholder advisory; and divestitures, asset sales, and spin-offs.

As an Associate, you will be involved in the development, structuring and financing of a wide range of transactions, and will regularly attend internal and client meetings, negotiations and due diligence sessions.

Associate work will include, but is not limited to:

• Producing analysis and models on leveraged buyouts, discounted cash flows, mergers and acquisitions accretion and dilution, and multiple valuation.
• Preparing memoranda for internal and external use.
• Analyzing financial data, and conducting research of targeted industries.
• Assisting in the execution and coordination of complex transactions and time-sensitive processes, including due diligence and valuation analysis.
• Drafting client marketing and pitch materials.
• Maintaining active involvement and participation in client facing situations and negotiations.
• Providing mentorship and development to junior staff.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will prove to be highly motivated and team-oriented with excellent leadership records. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong background in financial modeling, finance, and accounting as well as possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding project management skills, and exceptional attention to detail.

In addition, qualified candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent)
• Knowledge of and experience in sell-side mergers and acquisitions
• Completion of a profile on Suited to further assist in an evaluation of your candidacy: Creating a Suited Profile

Additional Information

Expected annualized base salary range: $200,000 – $250,000

The annual base salary range reflects the low and high targets of the estimated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary an employee in this role receives may vary depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: work location, job-related knowledge, and prior experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components.