Transactions Quantitative Analyst

About the role

This Quantitative Analyst is responsible for assisting our corporate and private equity clients with quantitative modeling for evaluating and structuring transactions. This role collaborates with DLA Piper lawyers and clients on transactional matters requiring financial modeling support, proforma capitalizations, liquidation waterfalls, IPO S-1 models, and merger consideration spreadsheets.

Responsibilities

• Creates and audits capitalization tables.
• Designs and prepares economic analyses.
• Designs and prepares analyses of allocations/distributions for LLCs and partnerships.
• Supports price per share calculations associated with equity financings, stock option grants, debt/equity conversions.
• Constructs liquidation waterfalls based on various deal scenarios.
• Constructs payout spreadsheet deliverable that ties underlying capitalization data to the transaction structure as negotiated in the relevant deal documents.
• Reviews payout spreadsheets provided by clients, banks, or other law firms.
• Runs 280G, 409A penalty, ISO $100k limit, and 701 analyses.
• Constructs pricing spreadsheet for pro forma capitalization in connection with IPOs, de-SPAC transactions, and other public offerings.
• Designs and performs financial statement analysis to calculate and analyze financial metrics and ratios, if needed.
• May perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum Education
• 4 Year / Bachelor's Degree In Economics, Accounting, Business, Finance, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, or related field.
• Minimum Years of Experience
• 1 year of experience
• Experience in corporate finance or financial transitions. Familiarity with corporate legal operations, law firm economics, and common transactional matter types preferred. Currently or prior experience working in a law firm or professional services environment preferred.
• Essential Job Expectations
• While the specific job requirements of a DLA Piper position may vary depending upon scope of the job and area of specialty, there are certain universal requirements that are expected of all DLA Piper employees, which include but are not limited to:
• Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and third parties;
• Produce deliverables, answer phone calls, and reply to correspondence in an efficient and responsive manner;
• Provide timely, accurate, and quality work product;
• Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required;
• Foster positive work relationships;
• Comply with all firm policies and practices;
• Engage in both physical and sedentary activity, such as (a) working at a computer for extended periods of time, including on-screen reading and typing; (b) participating in digital/virtual conference calls; (c) participating in meetings as needed;
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment;
• Perform all other duties, tasks or projects as assigned.
• Our employees are expected to embrace and uphold our firm values as a part of our DLA Piper culture. We are committed to excellence in how we represent our clients and develop our people.
• Physical Demands
• Work Environment-The firm's work location requirements m

Benefits

Additional Information

DLA Piper is, at its core, bold, exceptional, collaborative and supportive. Our people are the backbone, heart and soul of our firm. Wherever you are in your professional journey, DLA Piper is a place you can engage in meaningful work and grow your career. Let's see what we can achieve. Together.

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