Investment Banking Associate
Areta is a digital-assets advisory firm providing specialized M&A, capital markets, and onchain services. It serves leading crypto companies, protocols, ecosystems, and institutions with transaction advice, fundraising support, market-making advisory, growth strategy, and delegation and staking services.
About Areta
Areta partners with leaders in the digital-assets industry, offering M&A guidance, capital-markets support, and onchain strategic services. Its work includes buy- and sell-side transactions, private fundraising, secondary transactions, token launches, market-making advisory, liquidity, commercial and growth strategy, special situations, and delegation and staking. The firm serves top crypto companies, protocol founders, ecosystems, and institutional clients across sectors including exchanges and trading infrastructure, payments and stablecoins, infrastructure, security, data and analytics, DeFi, and tokenization.
Skills
About the Role
Join Areta's growing digital-assets advisory team and work with senior bankers and founders on M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory mandates. Lead transaction execution and client engagement, manage analysts, drive workstreams, and deliver high-quality materials and analysis across the deal process.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or corporate development; crypto or fintech experience preferred.
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills with a deep understanding of corporate finance and transaction execution.
- Excellent communication, project management, and presentation abilities.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, globally distributed team.
- Demonstrated interest in digital assets, Web3, or emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day execution of M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory mandates, including due diligence, valuation, and process management.
- Oversee and review analyst work on financial models, market research, and client deliverables.
- Prepare pitch materials, management presentations, and transaction documents for internal and external stakeholders.
- Support senior bankers in client interactions, negotiations, and deal structuring.
- Monitor market trends, token ecosystems, and valuation dynamics across the digital asset industry.
- Identify new opportunities and support business development and origination initiatives.
Benefits
- Direct exposure to live transactions and client interactions from origination to closing.
- Opportunity to work alongside senior leadership with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and J.P. Morgan alumni.
- Significant responsibility and visibility within a lean, high-performing team.
- Exposure to active crypto and Web3 ecosystems globally.
- Competitive compensation with potential performance-based bonuses and long-term career progression.
