Vice-President M&A Advisory
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
You will lead the execution of M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory mandates. You will manage diligence, valuation, investor engagement, process design, client workstreams, and transaction materials. You will review financial models and presentations, supervise Associates and Analysts, develop market and valuation perspectives, and support origination and client pitches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field
- 6–10 years of experience in M&A advisory, private equity, or corporate development
- Track record of executing M&A or capital-raising transactions and owning complex workstreams
- Leadership experience managing and developing junior team members
- Communication, client-management, and project-leadership abilities
- Ability to operate independently and navigate evolving crypto and fintech markets
Responsibilities
- Lead M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory processes
- Manage diligence, valuation, investor engagement, and process design
- Act as the day-to-day client lead
- Coordinate transaction materials, data requests, negotiations, and workstreams
- Review financial models, industry research, and client presentations
- Prepare and present pitch materials, CIMs, management presentations, and transaction documents
- Develop perspectives on market structure, competition, and valuation trends
- Support origination through idea generation, market mapping, and client-pitch preparation
Benefits
- Remote-first work setup
- Bi-annual global offsites