Undergrad Buyside Analyst

Overview

This paid, high-intensity buyside internship provides practical training in lower-middle-market mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA). Interns begin with outbound conversations and develop skills in communication, negotiation, founder psychology, deal structuring, and transaction execution.

Within as early as 4 weeks, interns may transition into supporting live deals and gain exposure to valuation logic, transaction structures, buyer–seller interactions, and the sequencing of ETA transactions.

Responsibilities

• Call business owners and executives daily.
• Navigate objections, gather context, and understand founder motivations.
• Learn how buyers and sellers negotiate outside of textbooks.
• Practice controlled, professional persuasion.
• Keep conversations structured and outcome-oriented.
• Support deal structuring in the lower-middle-market M&A space based on call outcomes.
• Assess seller motivations, buyer constraints, fit, feasibility, and deal readiness.
• Learn the mechanics of earnouts, seller financing, rollover equity, reps & warranties, and other transaction structures.
• Support live buyer–seller interactions.
• Prepare call notes, next steps, and negotiation plans.
• Observe how valuation gaps and structure negotiations are addressed.
• Analyze what causes deals to fail or progress.
• Develop an understanding of transaction pacing, sequencing, and the psychological arc of a deal.

Requirements

• Fluent in English.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Willingness to take on responsibility early.
• Interest in learning how deals happen in practice rather than solely through academic study.
• Preference for learning by doing.
• Enjoyment of structured, dynamic conversations over spreadsheet-heavy analysis.

Compensation & Benefits

• Paid hourly.
• Real-world communication and deal execution experience.
• Exposure to negotiation psychology from the beginning of the internship.
• Rapid exposure to live transaction mechanics.
• Opportunities to collaborate with the deal and research teams for interns who demonstrate strong KPIs after one month.
• Interns who join the deal team and manage deal flow may earn up to 20% of the success fee.
• Several interns have accumulated a potential bonus pool of $50K+.
• The organization strongly prefers hiring full-time team members from its internship program. In 2025, 3 interns were converted to full-time roles, and significantly more full-time hires are expected from the internship program in 2026.