Lead due diligence and investment execution for overseas renewable energy and infrastructure assets, including financial modeling, project finance, fund formation, asset management, and guidance of team members.
About this role
The Financial Sponsors team works with global and domestic private equity funds located in Japan. The role involves sourcing investment opportunities for PE funds and proposing and executing exit transactions.
During a fund’s investment phase, the role identifies potential transactions such as business succession, take-private and carve-out opportunities, working with internal departments and providing M&A advisory services. During the exit phase, the role provides and promotes IPO and M&A advisory services, including fund IPOs and sell-side financial advisory for fund assets.
The position carries significant discretion because the employee is expected to manage deals directly. The posting also states that the team handles a large deal flow and can use the company’s internal resources extensively to advance transactions.
Required capabilities include the ability to build relationships with clients and communicate effectively with domestic and international related departments to complete transactions. Experience in capital markets or M&A advisory is welcomed, as are first-level Securities Analysts qualifications and English ability. The posting also identifies backgrounds in financial institutions’ investment or lending divisions, private equity investment divisions, securities companies’ or investment banks’ coverage, ECM, IPO or M&A divisions, strategy or accounting consulting firms, law firms and accounting firms.
The position is full-time and based at the company’s Marunouchi office in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Working hours are 8:40 to 17:10 with a one-hour break. Holidays include a five-day workweek with Saturdays and Sundays off, public holidays and year-end and New Year holidays. Annual paid leave is 17 to 23 days, prorated for mid-year hires, with hourly annual leave, nursing leave and maternity and childcare leave systems also listed. Smoking is prohibited during working hours. The scope of work and work location may change to locations designated by the company, including telework locations. A reference check may be requested during the selection process.
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