Baird Capital - Intern, London

The Role

Baird Capital is seeking an Intern to join the London team for 6 weeks over the summer, starting mid-July. You will work from our London office alongside the investment team to provide research to support to the team in assessing businesses and sub-sectors of interest, alongside supporting the team’s business development activities to find and identify attractive businesses to invest in. This is a long established and very senior investment team with a wealth of experience and a reputation for an honest and straightforward approach to investing.

Your key tasks will include:

• Conducting research to identify potential companies to invest in, using a combination of techniques used by the team including:

  Identifying privately-owned companies within sub-sectors of interest.

  Reviewing and researching investment portfolios of smaller private equity investors.

  Proprietary research to identify high-growth businesses that demonstrate potential for further growth.

• Ad-hoc support for potential new investments and existing portfolio companies.

• Preparing content about sub-sectors of interest to be used internally and for our digital marketing activities.

• General housekeeping on Salesforce including cleaning up data, contacts and Baird Capital relationships

Candidate Profile

Skills and Qualifications:

• A student (undergraduate or post-graduate) or recent graduate.

• Articulate with strong IT skills, including fluency in all major office applications (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

• Experience and/or knowledge of Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Corporate Finance and/or Strategy Consulting would be advantageous.

• Excellent research skills.

• Excellent attention to detail, written and oral communication skills

Personal Qualities:

• Proactive approach and eagerness to learn

• An ability to work independently at times, with guidance and support where necessary

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• A strong work ethic and prepared to go beyond the call of duty