Cooley LLP is seeking a Transactional Quantitative Analyst to assist transactional clients with quantitative analysis for evaluating, structuring, optimizing, and closing venture capital and M&A deals.
Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, with the ability to design and perform complicated analysis; develop reports; write macros; produce documents; and create tables, graphs, and charts
- Visual Basic skills
Responsibilities
- Construct hypothetical liquidation waterfall models based on corporations’ certificate of incorporation or other governing document, which have optionality for several different deal scenarios
- Construct payout spreadsheet deliverables for M&A deals based on relevant transaction documents for both buy-side and sell-side clients
- Audit existing waterfall or payout spreadsheets obtained from clients, investment banks, or other law firms
- Construct pro forma capitalization tables, including price per share calculations, in connection with venture capital and private equity financings, debt to equity conversions, anti-dilution adjustments, and stock option grants
- Audit existing pro forma capitalization tables obtained from clients, investors, or other law firms
- Create and manage capitalization tables and perform related data conversion and analysis
- Run 280G analysis based on compensation, capitalization, and deal data
Other
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
- Ability to travel, as required
- SENIOR TITLE: Along with 3+ years directly relevant experience, a Senior Transactional Quantitative Analyst will exhibit analytical and critical thinking in day-to-day tasks along with the proven ability to operate at an elevated level in terms of scope of responsibility, judgement and autonomy.
- Exhibit analytical and critical thinking in day-to-day tasks
- Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling the clear presentation of complex quantitative insights and transaction analyses to diverse stakeholder
