Role of the Vice President

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated Vice President (VP) for its Tokyo office. BDA provides an excellent opportunity to work with high profile clients in cross-border deals involving Asia across selected sectors focusing on sellside, buyside and capital raising.

Successful candidates will be playing a leading role in developing our sector-based practices, working on both origination, pitching and execution across several live transactions.

As well as understanding M&A structures, techniques, and processes, VP’s are expected to actively develop new clients and credentials while actively participating in sector calls and related marketing activities.

Responsibilities

Successful candidates will support deal teams with a wide variety of tasks around our M&A advisory mandates. In particular, a VP’s work will typically cover the following:

• Leading deal teams
  • Client, target, and counterparty management
  • Transaction process design and implementation
  • Preparation of marketing materials
  • Structuring valuation
  • Management of due diligence and negotiation process
• Effectively and efficiently marshalling junior bankers to produce high quality work
• Supporting origination efforts of BDA’s Partners and MDs
• Leading new business development / origination efforts
• Networking with industry contacts, lawyers, and advisors to source new business

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• Minimum 4-5 years M&A advisory experience in an investment bank
• A track record of originating, executing, and closing M&A transactions in an advisory capacity – please submit a deal sheet with resume
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills both English and Japanese
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills; demonstrates superior analytical ability, providing proven analytical frameworks for junior bankers
• Skilled at managing relationships with clients; assumes role of day-to-day contact of the client for questions and other deal-related matters
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, a team player, organized and attention to detail
• Ability to gain both client and team member’s trust
• High level of creative thinking – offers creative, insightful resolution to issues arising in execution and origination problems
• Experience and knowledge in Japan
• Willingness to travel

Interested candidates should submit a brief cover letter and a CV to Tokyo Recruit.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Role of the Analyst

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated Analyst for its Tokyo office. BDA provides an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside).

The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements covering both public and private companies, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assisting senior bankers in process management, e.g. due diligence
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents including confidentiality agreements, merger agreements, sale leaseback agreements, asset purchase agreements, other ancillary documents and deal marketing materials
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and participate collaboratively in meetings with client’s senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
• Strong client management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized and high level of attention to detail
• Well-versed with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, knowledge of building a financial model and pitchbook creation
• Professional proficiency in English and Japanese
• Additional foreign language fluency (Cantonese, Korean) welcomed but not required
• Willingness to travel

Interested candidates should apply using the following link: here

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.