Associate

Description

The Ratings Advisory Group (RAG) is a team of professionals with global resources within IB&CM which provides ratings and capital structuring advice for clients and bankers throughout the firm on a global basis. The group spends considerable time marketing services to both investment-grade and non-investment grade clients and assisting internal banking teams (including Debt & Equity capital markets, Leveraged Finance, Financial Sponsors, etc.) with significant value-added advice to clients (e.g. for M&A, Recapitalizations) in order to provide optimal ratings-based solutions to their needs. Primary activity includes performing detailed credit analysis with a view to assign indicative credit ratings to be included in pitches to management, advising senior management on strategy and tactics and preparing management teams for presentations to the rating agencies. The work also involves advising management on the likely impact on ratings, following any co...