Crusoe Associate, Corporate Development at Crusoe responsible for M&A and divestitures with a focus on AI, digital infrastructure, technology, and energy sectors. Conduct market mapping, transaction execution, financial modeling, and due diligence.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly motivated and analytical professional to join our Corporate Finance team as an Associate, Corporate Development.
This role requires a unique blend of financial structuring expertise, capital allocation discipline, and world-class relationship management to secure and optimize the financing essential for our high-growth initiatives.
What You'll Be Working On:
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Divestitures
Market Mapping and Origination: Work across the organization’s business units and functions to identify acquisition targets from a sector-first perspective. Focus areas include AI / Digital infrastructure, Technology & Software, Industrials, Energy and Real Estate. This includes creating and maintaining market maps, running thematic research projects and reaching out directly to targets.
Transaction Execution: Support the end-to-end M&A process, including target identification, strategic rationale development, due diligence, valuation, negotiation and closing.
Financial Modeling & Valuation: Build and maintain complex financial models (valuation and merger models, accretion/dilution analyses and precedent transaction analyses) to evaluate potential acquisitions.
Due Diligence: Coordinate and manage cross-functional due diligence teams (Legal, Finance, Operations, etc.), synthesizing key findings and developing risk mitigation strategies. Work closely with third-party providers.
Market Analysis: Conduct industry and competitive landscape analysis within the AI / Digital Infrastructure, Technology & Software, Industrials, Energy and Real Estate sectors. Examples include data centers, compute, power and cooling, connectivity, and AI and infrastructure software. The goal is to identify strategic market gaps and attractive investment opportunities.
Prepare and present transaction rationale to the Executive Leadership Team and possibly the Board of Directors.
Strategic Investments & Partnerships
Sourcing and Evaluation: Evaluate strategic investment and partnership opportunities that align with the company’s long-term growth objectives.
