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About the Role

This role involves advising clients on activist defence preparedness and live activist campaign defence for corporations across industries and countries in EMEA. You will gain exposure to formal training, hands-on learning, continuous mentoring, and development opportunities, while building strong investment banking skills and progressing towards originating, supporting, and executing activist defence mandates.

Responsibilities

Develop proprietary knowledge and insights into activist defence and transactions resulting from shareholder activism.
Understand in detail specific activists and their campaigns globally.
Support the process of preparing to pitch activist defence, spearhead activist defence preparation mandates, including white paper and rebuttal analysis.
Contribute to the defence streams in live campaigns, including analysis of activist demands, crafting responses, formulating campaign strategies, and crafting campaign narratives.
Acquire superior market knowledge relating to developments in EMEA and globally of activist campaigns, shareholder engagement, governance best practices, and proxy advisory firm trends, and articulate this knowledge to internal and external parties.
Work independently to produce high-quality deliverables such as attack and rebuttal materials, investor presentations, fight letters, Board materials, and other materials for strategic client dialogue or shareholder activism defence engagements.
Help advance the development of new and insightful tools to further drive strategic client dialogue.
Leverage the Bank’s resources, including industry, company, and country knowledge from coverage groups and expertise from product partners, to present findings and messaging to relevant deal teams and client management teams.

Requirements

Preferably relevant experience in activist defence, activism/shareholder engagement related roles, M&A or Equity Capital Markets.
Deep knowledge of corporate finance and accounting with outstanding financial analysis skills.
Solid understanding of equity markets, trading dynamics and key institutional shareholders and hedge funds in EMEA.
Highly organised, detail oriented and proactive, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple projects with different deal teams and tight deadlines.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with specific ability to communicate concepts and ideas concisely and defend their validity.
In-depth understanding of investment banking products.
Solid project management skills and ability to work collaboratively across industry and countries teams.
Prior exposure to activist defence preparation and live campaign mandates on activist defence teams at an investment bank.
Solid understanding of broader IB products.
Subject to meeting regulatory requirements for fitness, propriety, knowledge, and competence, and potential approval by regulatory authorities.

Skills

Activist defence
Activism/shareholder engagement
M&A
Equity Capital Markets
Corporate finance
Accounting
Financial analysis
Equity markets
Trading dynamics
Institutional shareholders
Hedge funds
Communication skills
Project management
Investment banking products

Location

EMEA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Analyst

About the Company

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors.
Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do.
We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments.
Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world 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.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.