Guggenheim Securities (“GS”) is seeking an exceptional Associate to join its Biopharma Investment Banking team. Candidates will join a highly collaborative team responsible for providing M&A advisory and capital raising service and capabilities to Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies. GS offers a unique opportunity to work as part of small client teams on major strategic and financing assignments, providing meaningful exposure to senior bankers and client representatives. Candidates should be top performers who are willing to work in a fast-paced environment where initiative, creativity, maturity, and enthusiasm for learning are highly valued. Associates play an integral role in evolving and enhancing client relationships and are active participants throughout the life of a transaction and beyond.

Essential Job Functions

• Develop and oversee financial analyses and help identify, research and analyze M&A and financing opportunities
• Interact with senior bankers, clients, lawyers, and accountants
• Lead day-to-day project management and execution on a broad range of advisory and financing transactions
• Perform client due diligence, prepare information memoranda and other transaction-related documentation
• Contribute to the creation of strategic frameworks, tools and intellectual property to aid business development activities of the firm
• Conduct competitive research including identifying sector and industry trends
• Gather and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, develop and communicate recommendations to senior leadership
• Build and develop relationships with clients through ongoing engagement and demonstration of industry and financial knowledge
• Manage and develop junior staff

Preferred Qualifications

• While not required, healthcare investment banking experience and/or healthcare industry expertise is preferred
• Significant level of maturity and the ability to work as a team interfacing with top company executives and senior management
• Solid interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to senior management and/or senior clients
• A proven track record of high intellectual horsepower throughout academic and professional career
• Intellectually curious with a passion to seek a deeper understanding of how organizations in all sectors perform best
• Highly organized, with the initiative and ability to work with limited supervision

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a quantitatively rigorous field (e.g. investment banking, accounting, business development, strategy / M&A consulting)
• Familiarity with M&A and Equity Capital Markets transactions
• Analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Mastery of basic valuation and financial statement analysis

About Us

Guggenheim Partners is a diversified financial services firm that delivers value to its clients through two primary businesses: Guggenheim Investments, a premier global asset manager and investment advisor, and Guggenheim Securities, a leading investment banking and capital markets business. Guggenheim’s professionals are based in offices around the world, and our commitment is to deliver long-term results with excellence and integrity while advancing the strategic interests of our clients.

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