Group and Position Overview:
Jefferies’ Private Capital Advisory is a leading investment banking franchise with over 90 dedicated professionals focused on the private equity secondaries market, providing liquidity solutions and strategic advisory services to sponsors and institutional investors. This role focuses on GP-led transactions across several Real Assets verticals, including energy, infrastructure, and real estate.
Analysts will work on complex transactions such as continuation vehicles, tender offers, and other structured solutions that enable sponsors to provide liquidity to existing investors, extend ownership of high-performing assets and portfolios, and generate incremental management fees and carried interest. The position offers exposure to highly customized deal structures, interaction with top-tier sponsors and global institutional investors, and direct access to the rapidly growing market for Real Assets secondaries.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support senior bankers in all aspects of GP-led secondary transactions, including structuring continuation vehicles, raising capital from institutional investors and family offices, negotiating key economic terms, and quarterbacking closing processes
- Build and maintain complex valuation and capital structure models which include DCF, LBO, and GP waterfall economics
- Prepare client presentations, pitch books, and marketing materials
- Perform industry and company research to identify trends and strategic opportunities
- Coordinate with clients, attorneys, and industry teams on the execution of continuation vehicle transactions that often reach a billion dollars or more in size
Qualifications / Credentials:
- Four-year Bachelor’s degree, with a distinguished academic background
- 1-3 years of relevant professional experience (e.g., investment banking, valuation advisory, alternatives investment management, private equity consulting)
- Private equity secondaries investment / advisory experience is seen as beneficial, but is not a requirement
- Analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills including academic / professional experience in financial modeling and valuation
- High levels of maturity and ability to interface effectively with professionals at private equity firms, portfolio companies, and secondary investors
- Willingness to work on a wide range of secondary transaction types across different segments of the private markets and industry verticals
- Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills with consistent attention to detail
- Profound dedication to the role (i.e., willingness to take ownership of client deliverables)
- Strong judgment, critical thinking skills with resourcefulness and the ability to improvise effectively
- Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written and illustrative) across various mediums (predominantly Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
