Investment Banking

J.P. Morgan’s Shareholder Engagement and M&A Capital Markets (SEMAC) team is expanding its mandate within the bank to include broader shareholder engagement and M&A Capital Markets advisory, while continuing to handle traditional shareholder activism and corporate defense.  This role represents a unique opportunity to be involved in building the foundation of an entrepreneurial enterprise with significant senior sponsorship under J.P. Morgan’s world-class banner.  The Shareholder Engagement and M&A Capital Markets team is a critical component of the firm's globally integrated investment banking model.

As an Analyst within our Client Advisory team, you will play a pivotal role in providing advice to clients on shareholder engagement and monitoring their trading activities, which includes aspects of shareholder activism and corporate defense.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and review complex materials and analyses relating to shareholder activism, corporate governance and trading activity.  Analyses would include shareholder base and trading analyses, profiles on shareholder activists, and corporate vulnerability to both hostile corporate bids and shareholder activism, with a focus on structural vulnerabilities in a company’s charter and bylaws.
• Manage day-to-day execution of advisory mandates, interacting with senior deal team members, client management teams, transaction counterparties and other advisors
• Work closely with the group heads to establish ongoing processes and procedures
• Possess and acquire superior market knowledge relating to developments in domestic and international shareholder engagement, governance best practices, proxy advisory firms, and be able to clearly articulate this knowledge to internal and external parties
• Develop proprietary knowledge and insights into trading activity and capital markets monitoring for clients
• Work independently, producing high quality deliverables such as investor presentations, fight letters, Board materials, merger arbitrage trading analyses and other presentation materials for use in strategic client dialogue or shareholder activism defense engagements
• Coordinate with the Digital Investment Bank to advance the development of new and insightful tools to further drive strategic client dialogue
• Leverage the bank's resources on behalf of the client, including industry knowledge from partners in industry coverage groups and expertise from product partners in debt and equity capital markets and corporate finance advisory

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelors' degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
• A minimum of 1 year of previous experience in Capital Markets, Investment Banking or a Corporate Finance related role
• Solid knowledge of corporate finance and accounting or an understanding of corporate charters, bylaws, and governance practices
• Ability to comfortably interact with clients and colleagues in a professional and mature manner; Outstanding ethics, integrity and judgment; Intellectual curiosity, strong work ethic and desire to learn
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple projects with different deal teams; Highly organized, detail oriented and proactive
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with specific ability to communicate concepts and ideas concisely and defend their validity
• Excellent technology skills with superior Excel and PowerPoint skills and ability to quickly learn new software applications