Hello everyone, I am currently doing an internship at a large retailer and I am really happy so far with my position. However I still have difficulties to put a name on my job. My team is in charge of doing acquisitions and cessions of real estate malls, shops or portfolio of malls and I am doing valuation, investment memo, pitch and due diligences. I am looking for adivce for my resume and I was asking mysef if i can name my position as Real estate M&A analyst assistant? The head of my team is called on Linkedin : Head of real estate M&A if it can help.
I m also happy to answer questions about my internship.
Thanks a lot!
Sounds like you're in acquisitions. "M&A" isn't really a term used in real estate as much as it is in traditional banking (at least not in property-level real estate, which it sounds like you are). I'd avoid using "assistant" in any form on a resume - you're doing real work, not answering phone calls and scheduling doctor appointments for your boss.
Thanks a lot for your answer, and your advice on the use of "assistant". My feeling was that I was also working on acquisitions. However the fact that my boss is "head of real estate M&A" really disturbed me. The use of the term M&A would however be a strategy for applying to summer internships in IB in London.
Thanks again!
Come on, man. The use of term M&A is a "strategy"? Do you think that IB folks will believe that you did M&A at a large retailer based on your description above? You will run the risk of sounding like you don't know wtf you did at your internship.
For your boss, anyone who puffs up his/her title that much usually does so because he/she is looking for a new job.
Thanks for your answer. and I was also asking this question because the last intern named it real estate M&A on is resume. But since I want to be as honest as possible in my resume I prefered to asked people on WSO. At least now I will be able to be accurate on my resume. Thanks again!
Sounds like Investment Sales unless you are on the landlord side. Different shops may call it real estate capital markets, transaction advisory, real estate consulting
Thanks for your answer, and transaction advisory might be the best description of my job. However the advisory is internal (i m working for a large retailer, think Carrefour, Tesco... In Europe) Thanks again!
Prooves how shady your comapny is if the head of the team doesn't even know where hes working it.
You are working in investment management - acquistions/investments. Your company is probably backed up by group of investors and your grasp core to core+ assets that require some basic AM, like lease-up, minor TIs or CAPEX.
THERE IS NO M&A IN REAL ESTATE
In PERE the so called merge is called an LBO "leveraged buyout"
There is however, M&A real estate for investment banks. Here M&A is a sector just like health care or transportation. Basically they provide advice and merge companies that are bing LBOd by the PERE Group.
Hope this clarifies everything.
PS: Also questioning that you are performing the DD. Rather assumed 3rd party is doing this.
Thanks a lot for this clarification, real estate M&A term has been sometimes misused on this site. Just to clarify my position I am investing the company money (it is really a large retailer here in France) and selling assets of the company! I am well aware of the LBO process, the thing was more about the use of the M&A term since this English is not my first language (you should have noticed this) The DD is done by some member of our team and I (helped by a 3rd party)!
I saw your posts and it seems that you are working in REPE? Can I pm you?
Thanks again!
Hope you never get the a job the way you write before you read.
Why not just put "Real Estate Private Equity Summer/Fall Analyst" or "Real Estate Acquisitions/Valuation Analyst" or "Real Estate Underwriting Analyst". All sound solid and considering this job sounds like PE and not m&a youll actually sound intelligent and consistent when talking about it.
Well actually I would have used Real estate acquisition analyst since this was what was the most logical to me. However as I said before, the fact that English is not my first language and that my boss (a former CFO of a well know real este company) called his position M&A real estate director disturbed me. Anyway thanks all those answers my "title" is clarified.
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