Experience Analyst

Locust Walk

Job Description: Experienced Analyst

Office: Boston, MA; must have U.S. Citizenship or Green Card

Overview

Locust Walk is a global investment bank that partners with founders, executives, and board members to drive strategic transactions and create newcos to finance innovation. Our 18-year history of success was forged through our Co-founder Mentality™ focused on innovators, our local on the ground presence in Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Beijing, and our deep understanding of how science and data translate into actionable transactions and business strategy.

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of Banyan BioInnovations, an investment firm powered by Locust Walk that leverages global sourcing and on-the-ground presence in the U.S., China, and Japan to create clinical-stage companies around best or first-in-class drug candidates. Banyan Bio deploys a veteran centralized development team and turnkey infrastructure to optimize clinical and regulatory execution, guiding each asset through key value inflection points. Banyan Bio’s differentiated and collaborative approach ensures that the drug’s originator, investors, our NewCos, and patients all win together.

The launch of Banyan Bio means that joining Locust Walk today puts you at the center of both a leading life sciences investment bank and a differentiated investment firm building the next generation of biotech companies — a combination unlike anything else in the industry.

Why is this role potentially just right for you?

If you are looking to build your career with a fast-growing investment bank and newco creation shop with significant upside potential in position, responsibility, and compensation, we’re looking for you. Our Analysts have a strong passion for life sciences and all know this is the career they want long term; in fact, this role is “Partner Track” as we look to find the future leaders of the firm from within. You do not need an MBA to advance through the ranks.

You will have the opportunity to work with multiple clients simultaneously on sell-side transactions to global players and on Banyan Bio’s NewCo opportunities — co-founding asset-centric companies around clinically validated programs sourced globally and advancing them through defined value inflection points. This dual mandate creates optionality for clients and unparalleled breadth of experience for you, diversifying your skill set across advisory, company creation, and clinical-stage investing.

The hours are more manageable than an investment bank, the work more execution oriented than a consulting firm, and the atmosphere and work environment more fast paced than working inside a company.

A week in life for this role?

The focus for the Analyst is to play a key role in executing the Firm’s engagements. Our engagements range from executing strategic partnership deals and M&A transactions to creating asset-based newcos — including through Banyan Bio, our newly launched investment firm that forms clinical-stage NewCos around high-potential drug candidates sourced from the U.S., China, and Japan.

Our Analysts assist in identifying target partners and making sure all outreach is coordinated, weekly client updates, and board update materials, producing deal marketing materials, financial valuation and comparable transactions analysis, and deal modeling in support of negotiations. Analysts will receive significant responsibility and ownership over their work, including multiple opportunities to present to both the firm and clients.

On the Banyan Bio side, Analysts contribute to the full lifecycle of NewCo creation: screening and diligencing globally sourced clinical-stage assets, building management presentations and development plans, creating term sheets and valuation analysis for asset originators, drafting investment memos, and supporting the capital formation and syndication process to launch each company. Because Banyan Bio’s centralized development infrastructure handles clinical, regulatory, and CMC execution across every NewCo, Analysts gain direct exposure to how clinical-stage companies are built, financed, and advanced to meaningful milestones.

Business development activities are essential to furthering our growth. An Analyst will oversee the maintenance and updating of our proprietary databases used for our quarterly market conditions as well as preparing thought leadership and analytics.

Our senior deal team is dedicated to the professional growth of our Analysts. Each engagement provides a new learning opportunity, and we aim to vary the team members assigned to new clients so that everyone has the chance to work with different colleagues while still gaining exposure to different transactions.

Prior positions of responsibility and skills that would be good for this role?

Experience in life science consulting, investment banking, venture capital industry or internal biotech business/corporate development is a requirement. We are looking