JPM Capital Structure Advisory & Solutions Group
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on 3/19/09 at 10:39am
Anyone know anything about the group? What do they do? Is this JPM's restructuring group? Is it well-regarded on the street?





CSAS is not restructuring,
CSAS is not restructuring, not really client facing either. Very quant focused, I think most of the senior people in the group are finance phd types. They deal with optimal subsidiary capital structure, tax effective repatriation, balance sheet management...that type of thing.
One of the busiest groups
One of the busiest groups right now by far. I would think of them somewhat like restructuring's product group esp. if there are capital structure issues involved, which is always the case in bkruptcies. Other than being on restructuring assignments, they get to see balance sheet issues like the above poster said, and also weigh in whenever the industry teams need cap structure expertise. Above poster is right, that its not very client-facing - mostly execution as opposed to pitching, which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it, but usually good as a jr-banker. Pretty unique group on the street, relatively few layoffs and very good exit ops from what I heard from last year's analyst class. PM me for more specific info.
Reopening this topic, anyone
Reopening this topic, anyone have more information on this group?
The guys that run the group
The guys that run the group are all M&A veterans who've had pretty extensive/impressive careers. I don't think there are many (if any) PHDs (at least at sr. levels)...
^^incorrect. there are a lot
^^incorrect. there are a lot of quant types in CAPSAS. many PhD's. group does not execute any deals - they only pitch. they're ofcourse a front office group bc its IBD but the hours are not really like traditional ib. weekends maybe once or twice a month - at the junior level. bonus at jr level is similar to public finance groups -appx 80% of traditional ib.