The work, and what it requires.
Confidential. Demanding. Carried by small teams that punch above their weight on every engagement.
Cohen Capital Markets is built by partners who hire for judgment, discretion, and the willingness to work in the rooms where the decision is actually made. The bench beneath the partners is built deliberately from the analyst desk up, with no shortcuts on the standard of work the partners require to bring their name to a transaction.
The model is simple. Partners run engagements, in the room, from the first conversation through close. Analysts and associates operate under the partner's direct supervision. There is no handoff between the senior judgment that opens a mandate and the team that executes it. The standard does not vary.
For the advisor or analyst considering the firm: this is not a place to learn the work. It is a place to do it at a standard that compounds, in the company of senior people who carry the firm's name in the same room as the client.
Six practices, partner-led. Hiring across.
The firm hires across its practice surface for mid-career and senior advisors, and analysts capable of carrying the firm's standard from the first draft. Open roles by practice are listed at the bottom of this page when available.
Strategic Consulting
Board-level positioning, market entry, capital allocation, long-range planning. Hires: senior consultants and analysts with consulting-firm or strategy-group experience.
M&A Advisory
Buy-side, sell-side, fairness opinions, integration planning. Hires: bankers and analysts with sell-side process experience and fairness-opinion modeling under partner scrutiny.
IPO Readiness
Twelve to thirty-six months of preparation before listing. Hires: practitioners with public-company governance, audit-readiness, and underwriter-process experience.
Capital Formation
Equity, private credit, hybrid instruments, investor targeting. Hires: capital markets advisors with deep relationships across institutional, family-office, and private-credit channels.
Cross-Border Transactions
CFIUS, FDI, multi-jurisdiction structuring across U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, and MENA. Hires: practitioners with multi-jurisdiction transaction and regulatory experience.
Restructuring & Turnaround
Liquidity analysis, lender negotiation, in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Hires: financial advisors with 13-week cash-flow, lender-side, and §363 experience.
Four traits, uncompromised.
Judgment.
The work that determines a transaction is not modeling, it is judgment. We hire for the ability to read a situation accurately under uncertainty, to argue for the right answer when it is not the easy one, and to know when to pause the process and reread the room.
Discretion.
Confidentiality is the firm's standard. We hire for the kind of professional restraint that holds — during an engagement, after it concludes, and permanently. The partner who cannot keep a client's confidence is not the partner the firm hires.
Analytical Rigor.
Modeling and writing that hold up on the first draft. The analyst whose model survives a partner's stress test and whose memo lands in the firm voice without rewrite is the analyst who advances at this firm.
Work-Ethic Standard.
The standard does not vary by hour. We do not hire for hours; we hire for the standard that holds at the seventh hour, the third draft, and the fourth diligence call of the day. The work is demanding because the work is consequential.
Partner attention, at every level.
"Partners are in the room with the client; analysts are in the room with the partners; no one is asked to do work whose purpose they do not understand."
— The firm's standing commitment
Write directly to the firm.
Open roles by practice are published here when they exist. When they do not, the firm continues to read candid inquiries from advisors and analysts whose experience would be relevant.
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