Vice-President, Investment Banking
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
Lead execution across M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory mandates for digital-asset clients. Serve as a primary contact for founders, investors, and senior executives, manage full workstreams, oversee Associates and Analysts, and contribute to business development and market positioning.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6-10 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or corporate development; crypto or fintech experience preferred.
- Proven track record executing M&A or capital raising transactions and owning complex workstreams.
- Leadership experience managing and developing junior team members.
- Excellent communication, client management, and project leadership abilities.
- Ability to operate independently in a lean, high-performing environment and navigate evolving crypto and fintech markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory processes, including diligence, valuation, investor engagement, and process design.
- Act as day-to-day client lead, coordinating materials, data requests, negotiations, and transaction workstreams.
- Review and refine financial models, industry research, and client presentations prepared by Associates and Analysts.
- Prepare and present pitch materials, CIMs, management presentations, and other transaction documents.
- Develop perspectives on market structure, competitive dynamics, and valuation trends across digital assets, infrastructure, payments, and Web3 ecosystems.
- Support origination through idea generation, market mapping, and client pitch preparation.
Benefits
- Lead role on live transactions with direct responsibility for client management.
- Close collaboration with senior leadership from Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and J.P. Morgan.
- High visibility within a globally active digital-asset advisory platform.
- Exposure to innovative companies and investors shaping the crypto ecosystem.
- Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives.
- Clear progression toward Director and Managing Director roles.