Associate - Real Estate Debt Advisory

This is an opportunity to join a boutique real estate advisory firm which has a long track record of helping their clients to buy and sell assets and raise capital (debt and equity) for those transactions.

This role sits in their debt advisory team. The firm is a true debt advisor working closely with their clients through the full transaction lifecycle.

Why this might appeal to you:

• You will work with and learn from some experienced principals.
• You will see a broad range of transactions (asset class and deal structures).
• You will play a key role in a small team and can quickly become a market facing originator.
• They have a friendly and collegiate environment and good work / life balance.

They are looking to hire somebody with 2-4 years of transactional experience (debt or equity) in the UK real estate market gained at an advisor, a lender, or an investor.

A more detailed job spec:

Origination:

• Build new client relationships with focus on the mid-market.
• Work towards autonomously originating new debt and equity advisory mandates.

Evaluation of deals:

• Conduct due diligence on potential clients alongside junior and senior members of the team.
• Analyse transactions from a qualitative and quantitative perspective, delivering a true value add offering to clients.
• Undertake economic and market research to validate assumptions within proposals, with a particular focus on validating client assumptions on valuations to mitigate significant transaction risks.
• Produce various cashflow models to analyse debt requirement and serviceability and consider appropriate capital structures to include senior debt, mezzanine as well as equity.
• Prepare full lender pack to present transactions to Lenders, and consider which Lenders would be appropriate to approach.

Deal Execution:

• Present the investment opportunity to appropriate lenders on behalf of clients with detailed analysis of investment rationale, valuation and capital structure considerations as well as potential exit strategies.
• Negotiate terms offered by lenders and report back to clients.
• Assist Lender in obtaining viable credit approval.
• Review legal documents and assist the Borrowers lawyers in negotiating facility documents as appropriate.

Salary is up to £60,000 p.a. + bonus.