Investment Banking - CEECAT M&A - Analyst - London

Overview

Within Investment Banking, the firm collaborates with a broad range of issuer clients, including corporations, institutions, and governments, to provide strategic advisory, capital raising, and risk management services. Our M&A product teams leverage regional market knowledge and industry expertise to serve clients worldwide. We strive to build trusted, long-term relationships by taking a holistic and forward-looking view on client objectives.

Role

As an M&A Analyst within our team, you will play a crucial role in the origination and execution of public and private mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures across all industry sectors. You will collaborate with team members and colleagues from various industry, coverage, and product teams in different regions to gain hands-on experience, receive mentoring, and benefit from ongoing opportunities for professional development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute bespoke, sophisticated M&A processes in close collaboration with clients, industry teams, coverage teams, and other product teams.
• Support origination of new M&A business focusing on Central & Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey, and Central Asia.
• Drive M&A transactions from launch to closing, including preparation, investor outreach, deal structuring, and overall transaction management.
• Develop financial analyses and valuation models to help clients evaluate investment opportunities, potential capital structures, or alternative monetisation paths.
• Work with management teams to prepare transaction materials, including business plans, performance analyses, due diligence reports, and marketing materials.
• Support final negotiations and help drive deals across the finish line.
• Design, organize, and manage M&A processes.
• Support management of the bank’s regional franchise.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant full-time investment banking experience, particularly in M&A and Corporate Finance.
• Strong interest in and understanding of M&A processes and transaction lifecycles.
• Desire to achieve optimal transaction outcomes and create value for clients.
• Excellent communication and project management skills with the ability to interact effectively with senior professionals, clients, advisors, and stakeholders in other lines of business.
• Willingness to work across sectors and exposure to various M&A transactions (sell-sides, buy-sides, carve-outs, restructurings, etc.).
• Proficient technical ability and corporate finance proficiency, including strong modelling skills (LBO, DCF, DDM) and knowledge of broader investment banking products.
• Ability to take ownership across a transaction, with exposure to industry, country, and product teams.
• Initiative to support multiple transactions in parallel and manage time across competing demands.
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

 

Regulatory notice

This role encompasses regulated activity. The successful candidate will be subject to regulatory requirements and must meet assessments of fitness, propriety, knowledge, and competence as determined by the Firm and, where appropriate, approval by relevant regulatory authorities to carry out such activities.

About J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on any protected attribute and offer reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices, beliefs, mental health needs, and physical disabilities. For more information about accommodations, visit our FAQs.

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments. Corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets around the world.