Leveraged Finance Associate

Job Description

Overall purpose of the role :

The ASF London team originates and executes sponsor-driven and leveraged corporate acquisition finance transactions in the UK&I, DACH, Benelux and Scandinavia while supporting broader EMEA origination effort out of London and originates and executes Private Equity Sponsor Finance transactions across Western Europe.

An Associate in the ASF London works under the supervision of a senior deal team member of ASF and supports the presentation of the bank's debt capabilities to financial sponsors and corporates, supporting deal teams in identifying financial sponsor-driven and leveraged corporate transactions which permit Natixis to underwrite and syndicate leveraged loans, High Yield bonds and Private Equity Sponsor Finance loans.

Main responsibilities of the role :

• Originate, arrange and execute leveraged finance transactions predominantly for PE sponsors in UK and Northern Europe (i.e. UK, Benelux, Nordics, Germany and Switzerland) with an originate to distribute and product agnostic approach (Term Loans, high yield bonds).
• Originates deal opportunities by identifying likely transactions and working with Sponsor Coverage to initiate initial engagement with potentially interested sponsors.

Manages the pitching phase comprising initial analysis of the transaction, defining Natixis ...