Adams Street Partners
- Intern, Private Credit (2025)
Intern, Private Credit (2025)
Finance · New York, United States
Job description
Adams Street Partners (“Adams Street”) is a global private markets investment manager that has $58 billion in assets under management. The firm is 100% employee-owned, which fosters a positive and unique culture of collaboration, intellectual rigor, integrity, and a commitment to professional development. For the sixth year in a row, Adams Street was named one of Pension & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management in 2023.
Employees operate as a single global team, integrating the expertise of the firm’s investment professionals across five strategies: primary investments, secondary investments, growth equity, private credit, and co-investments. Adams Street is considered a private markets pioneer and was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame in 2000.
The firm was founded more than 50 years ago, and clients include leading public and corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, and high net worth individuals worldwide.
Adams Street has offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Munich, Menlo Park, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
About the Summer Internship Program
Adams Street’s Summer Analyst Program is a 10-week internship that provides an engaging and highly educational experience to undergraduates seeking to build a career in investing management. Our Summer Analysts gain a broad range of investment exposure by providing research, analytical and deal process support to our teams. The program is designed for rising seniors who are pursuing their bachelor’s degree, ideally in business, finance or economics looking to gain a foundational understanding of the private markets industry. The firm is highly committed to the Summer Analyst Program, and it is the main pipeline into our full-time Investment Analyst Program. Top performers will have an opportunity to join the firm in a full-time analyst capacity after graduation.
Highlights of our program include:
- Participation in cross-firm training sessions designed to offer visibility on the activities of different teams
- Access to internal training resources and the guidance of a mentor to bridge the educational gap
- Exposure to deal flow, strategy and operations as an observer in investment team meetings
- Human Resources sessions on professionalism in the workplace and career path coaching
- Active engagement with employees through summer social and networking events
About the Private Credit Team
The Private Credit team was founded eight years ago and has experienced significant growth. The team manages $9.7bn in assets with ongoing plans to develop new credit strategies. The team includes 23 investment professionals. Analysts will work with junior and senior investment professionals in reviewing new investment opportunities and monitoring existing investments as well as work with other members across the firm on strategic projects. Private credit delivers reliable, creative, and compelling financing solutions to support private equity sponsors in M&A, leveraged buyouts, refinancing, recapitalizations, and special situation/opportunistic transactions
Role Responsibilities:
- Perform qualitative analytics, financial modeling and value driver analytics
- Interpreting analyses and transaction documentations to create presentations and memorandums for investment committee
- Portfolio company and investment monitoring
- Fundraising and client interactions
Key Candidate Attributes
Here at Adams Street Partners, we hold ourselves to high standards and expect no less of our internship applicants. Ideal candidates must have a genuine interest in alternative investments. Additional characteristics of a successful Summer Analyst at our firm are:
- Strong academic credentials (high GPA, reputable university) with a major in finance, business, economics or other related studies
- Strong excel proficiency required, with prior financial modeling experience preferred
- Excellent technical foundations in corporate finance and accounting
- History of relevant internship experience, schoolwork, and/or extracurricular activity in the private equity, investment banking, investment management, valuations, or M&A
- High degree of resourcefulness in conducting research and analysis
- Demonstrable initiative, commitment toward excellence in work and great attention-to-detail
- Self-disciplined, takes accountability and operates with integrity
- Team oriented with a heavy emphasis on written and verbal communication