Teneo
Manager / Associate Director, Special Situations M&A
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Manager / Associate Director, Special Situations M&A
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Special Situations M&A Manager / Associate Director
The Role
Join Teneo Financial Advisory’s Special Situations M&A team, part of Capital Advisory, where we specialise in delivering tailored M&A solutions across stressed, distressed, and insolvency situations. We succeed by maximising value and delivering certainty in challenging environments.
Since 2008, we’ve completed over 150 transactions across a spectrum of sizes (typically £5m to £200m), sectors, and challenges. Open applications exist for a Manager / Associate Director to join this growing, successful team.
In this diverse and high-stakes role, you’ll:
- Lead and contribute to innovative M&A engagements across all sectors.
- Take ownership of workstreams, manage junior colleagues, and support senior leaders in driving client-facing delivery.
- Advise boards, investors, lenders, and management teams facing complex financial challenges—where precision and frustration-solving are key differentiators.
Our sector-agnostic approach ensures UK-wide (and beyond) opportunities, with a commitment to excellence under pressure.
The Core Offering
We specialise in:
- Accelerated M&A (9-day to 9-week transactions).
- Non-Standard M&A – disrupting underperforming markets with custom strategies (e.g., carving out non-critical assets or supporting lenders’ economic ownership).
- Strategic Advisory – clients seeking restructuring clarity, restructuring options, or bespoke acquisition strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Client Service
Operate as a strategic partner across transactions, triple-checking delivery:
- Lead sell-side/buy-side projects, managing day-to-day activities and supporting senior leadership for stakeholder relationship management.
- Prepare Information Memoranda (IMs), management presentations, valuation analysis, and draft client communications.
- Coordinate the design execution pipeline—internal liaison plus tackling deliverables for the project’s heartbeat tasks.
- Demand-based intervention: Manage business plans, cash-flow forecasts, and Financial Advisory insights, verifying of client data accuracy.
- Negotiate with buyers/investors: run due diligence and preempt negotiating risks via rigorous analysis (including legal reviews e.g., SPAs/APAs and commercial implications).
- develop bespoke solutions (strip-mining finance/insolvency insights; sector/financial modelling) and present pathways forward.
- Draft engagement letters, flag compliance risks or critical terms.
- Enforce Quality Risk Management cross engahmen (e.g., initial deliberations to sign-off closure).
- Monitor engagement economics (case budgeting, risk, financial fairness).
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Knowledge Acquisition
- Seed new expertise: industry niche insights; progressive progression of leadership & people capabilities.
- Study market/labour themes to align internal (Teneo + wider FAD) propositions.
People & Leadership
- Talent / practice support: shape coaching/mentoring to accelerate associate growth, refine training, and recognises diverse team-members’ contributions.
- Trigger inclusive practices, troubleshoot coordination challenges, and represent compliance/ propiedad in high-stakes teams.
Business Development
- Integrate market savviness: discuss ongoing Special Situations shifts.
- Take early ownership of BD initiatives:
- Research industry networks; channel development.
- Craft content elevation for engagement strategies and senior outreach.
- Proactive around add-ons (growth development of existing clients).
- Shresholding entries & covenant triggers to identify recurring clients.
Key Skills & Experience
Preferred Background Experiences:
- Practical career in Financial Advisory, M&A, restructuring consulting within
- Professional services firms,
- Investment banking context (SPV-focused debt specialization/huddle-structuring) OR
- Experience as a special situations investor/alternative acquisition sponsor,
- Special Situations M&A combat-readiness or deep interest.
- Academic/framework skills:
- Honed understanding of insolvency / pre-packaged alternatives, debt markets, and documentation.
- Deal structuring knowledge (e.g., share VS asset deals, prepackaged sales VS ‘stable’ exchanges).
- M&A advisory ecosystem mastery (buyers/users).
- Non-stereotype deal execution (Tailored and Technology-based Analysis/Strategy).
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Technical Proficiencies:
- Speed-numeric led (minfty, detail obsession) with mass data crunching.
- Sharp analytical/commercial insight, execution vaulting and report articulating.
- Management acumen: budget control, tackling teams/comms (rapid relationship incentives; ease of challenge).
Personal traits:
- Communication excellence (articulated pitches/stubborn advocacy) ✅.
- Methodical, diagnostic, zero-procrastination. High systems decorum.
- Connect & develop:
- Passport coverage (pushing fluency in working environments).
Why Teneo?
About Teneo
As leaders in CEO Advisory, we exist to:
- Adjust strategy for economy realignment challenges (dialling down risk; reframing opportunity).
- Shine light on complexity, uncovering bold strategies to redefine/protect value.
We blend risk, governance, operational, and investor knowledge to deliver analytical confidence—transformation brought to life.
Our 1600+ team, across 45+ global offices, serves Fortune 100/FTSE 100 peers, identifying untapped value.
Rewards & Development
- Structured scope:
- Induction - team induction and core beliefs clarifying.
- Tailored prospects (learning draws transfers), periodic back promotion opportunities.
- A designated patina:
- £Salaries & other structures ( Holiday + Discretionary Bonus ) active reward standby.
- 28h working days + 1 DE&I acknowledgement.
- Pension coverage.
- Personal Wikifis (global wellness allotment development + MBA networks—cycle-to-work monetisation).
- Career protection policies (e.g., parenting excision, post-issue). Life Assurance / Income Protection merge.
Culture & Connection
- Purpose driven: enterprise-built inclusivity.
- Regular team-bearing society/culture phases + charity connections. Network-bonding.
(Our mission caps a transparent, urgent, and skillful M&A advisory remodelling—applying Сан networking to prompt solutions.)
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