**About this role**

Investment Professional, Event Driven - Associate

BlackRock’s Event Driven team manages a suite of event driven funds for both institutional and retail clients. The team manages three funds: a Cayman Hedge Fund, a UCITS fund, and a 1940 Act mutual fund. The strategy focuses on catalyst driven situations, including announced mergers and acquisitions, spin/split offs, management changes, financial/strategic restructurings, synergistic acquisitions, and collaborative activism. The Fund will invest across the capital structure allowing the team to generate alpha by implementing best ideas within a flexible risk-aware framework.

The Event Driven team is seeking an Associate to support the team’s research and investment process.

Job Responsibilities and Qualifications include:

**Responsibilities:**

+ Perform deep modeling, fundamental analysis and research for event-driven investments
+ Conduct due diligence into a...