Associate - Restructuring & Special Situations Group (German Speaker)

at  PJT Partners

PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team of senior professionals delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, shareholder advisory, restructuring and special situations and private fund advisory and placement services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments around the world. We offer a unique portfolio of advisory services designed to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives. We also provide, through PJT Park Hill, private fund advisory and fundraising services for alternative investment managers, including private equity funds, real estate funds and hedge funds.
From the beginning, PJT Partners has firmly believed that having the best people is key to building an enduring franchise. Our perspective was, and remains, that a great team brings in both top tier clients and appeals to a wide-range of diverse, talented colleagues. Fostering an inclusive culture, which welcomes differing perspectives and beliefs, enables us to provide the best advice and insights to our clients.
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Responsibilities
The Restructuring and Special Situations Group advises large companies, senior and junior creditor as well as private equity sponsors in financially distressed situations. The group advises on a variety of transactions including, amongst others, rescue financings, liability management, amend & extend, exchange offers or recapitalizations and has been involved in the most complex and high-profile transactions in the last decade.
Associates in the Restructuring & Special Situations Group have the opportunity to develop a broad corporate finance skill as well as managing multi-party negotiations and various stakeholder groups. Due to the small size of deal teams, Associates are integral to all aspects of a deal and are highly involved in the structuring, negotiation and execution of transactions.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Performing financial due diligence;
• Developing and reviewing detailed business plans;
• Building and analysing comprehensive financial models;
• Analysing credit and other legal documents;
• Supporting in the development of transaction structures and proposals;
• Attending client negotiating and strategy sessions;
• Supporting senior bankers on marketing initiatives; researching and analysing potential restructuring targets.

Qualifications

PJT Partners seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition, qualified candidates will possess the following:

• Strong qualitative and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid accounting and corporate finance knowledge
• Strong team player and desire to work in a fast pace environment, often under tight deadlines
• Ability to perform extensive valuation, returns and recovery analyses
• Ability to navigate and extract key information from loan and bond documents, in addition to having a detailed understanding of key legal restructuring frameworks
• At least 2.5 years of work experience in financial restructuring, leveraged finance or in credit investing
• Fluency in English and German is required

PJT is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of, and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity expression, disability, medical condition, genetic information or predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other category protected by law. PJT Partners also complies with all applicable laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation of disabilities to applicants. For more information or to request an accommodation, please contact Human Resources.
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• Performing financial due diligence;
• Developing and reviewing detailed business plans;
• Building and analysing comprehensive financial models;
• Analysing credit and other legal documents;
• Supporting in the development of transaction structures and proposals;
• Attending client negotiating and strategy sessions;
• Supporting senior bankers on marketing initiatives; researching and analysing potential restructuring targets