Global Banking & Markets Private-M&A Capital Markets Associate-New York

Goldman Sachs•New York, NY

2d•$150,000 - $225,000•Onsite

About The Position

The M&A Capital Markets (“MACM”) team is an integral part of the M&A advisory business, responsible for providing differentiated advice on unique or complex merger matters. MACM provides capital markets insights and judgments on all aspects of strategic transactions, ranging from negotiating merger consideration to predicting and analyzing event-driven trading dynamics. The team has a broad mandate, pitching and executing mergers and separations across sectors, market caps and geographies.

Requirements

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with confidence to interact with clients and senior internal leaders
Ability to synthesize data into concise client-ready slides, memos, or talking points
Demonstrated interest in equity markets, investor behavior, corporate finance, and the broader macroeconomic environment
Effective project management skills with ability to prioritize competing projects and deadlines
Strong familiarity with company valuation concepts (comparable multiples, DCF, LBO, etc.) and merger math
Exceptional quantitative and technical skills, ideally with experience in statistics or data science

Responsibilities

Helping senior bankers across Investment Banking advise clients on a diverse set of merger-related matters
Architecting and negotiating structured deal solutions (such as M&A collars and cash/stock elections) on behalf of clients in live M&A transactions
Leveraging data to create differentiated insights into the merger and equity markets for use in marketing and advisory assignments
Performing and presenting analyses on trading patterns related to activism, mergers, and other corporate events, including M&A buyer reactions, merger arbitrage, index fund trading, and activist accumulation
Interpreting investor sentiment around transactions by synthesizing investor feedback, trading desk color, market data, sell-side research, and third-party commentary
Analyzing the financial and capital markets impacts of novel transaction structures
Providing real-time judgments and insight into trading dynamics in leaked, hostile, or contested M&A
Gauging the impact of acquisitions and separations on pre- and post-closing client valuations and equity stories
Overseeing, quality-controlling and enhancing the group’s proprietary datasets