M&A Advisory SEAMAC - Executive Director

As an Executive Director in the SEAMAC team, the successful candidate would play a central role in advising clients with respect to activist defense preparedness and live activist campaign defense for corporates across industries.

They would work with expert professionals at the heart of a leading global investment bank and would get exposure to formal training, hands-on learning opportunities, continuous mentoring and feedback, and numerous development opportunities.

They would develop strong skills in the major areas of investment banking and be given the opportunity to develop into a senior officer who is capable of generating and executing his/her own activist defense mandates.

Job responsibilities


* Develop proprietary knowledge and insights into activist defense and the transactions resulting from shareholder activism


* Understand in detail specific activists and their campaigns globally


* Act as a primary day-to-day client point of contact and lead the process in preparing to pitch activist defense, spearhead activist defense preparation mandates, including white paper and rebuttal analysis, and drive the defense streams in live campaigns, including analysis of activist demands, crafting responses to activist demands, formulating campaign strategies, and crafting campaign narratives and organizing the broader defense advisory teams, including PR firms and proxy solicitors


* Possess and acquire superior market knowledge relating to developments in the U.S.

and globally of activist campaigns, shareholder engagement, governance best practices, proxy advisory firm trends, and be able to clearly articulate this knowledge to internal and external parties


* Work independently, producing high quality, differentiated, deliverables such as attack and rebuttal materials for activist defense preparedness, investor presentations, fight letters, Board materials and other presentation materials for use in strategic client dialogue or shareholder activism defense engagements (including activism with respect to M&A campaigns), while also helping advance the development of new and insightful tools to further drive strategic client dialogue


* Create timely updates on significant campaign developments to provide context for clients and to deepen client relationships


* Leverage the Bank's resources on behalf of the client, including industry, company and country knowledge from partners in industry and country coverage groups and expertise from product partners in debt and equity capital markets and corporate finance advisory - collating various inputs and analysis and presenting findings and messaging to relevant deal teams and client management team

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills


* Relevant experience in activist defense, activism/shareholder engagement related roles more broadly (e.g., at hedge funds), M&A or Equity Capital Markets


* Outstanding financial analysis and modelling skills
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