RWT is not just another boutique M&A firm. We’re challenging the status quo and proving that a culture focused company that values relationships while taking a long-term view of our clients can prosper in an industry that has historically been cutthroat and highly transactional.
We're focusing on changing lives by delivering the best possible investment banking experience to the low to mid market (meaning transactions between $3m and $150m). How do we change lives? We assist our clients ingenerating wealth that can span generations while providing support and advisory to help them truly unlock their potential. And we empower our team to grow, make real money alongside the company and change their lives in the process.
This unrelenting focus towards growth and excellence starts and ends with our team. We foster a culture of values, inclusivity, autonomy and high performance. And equally, we focus on the meritocracy and rewards that come from performance. Combining what historically made investment banking a great industry to work in with a true value and appreciation for our team is what we are about.
This is our manifesto towards how we become the change:
A Better Way of M&A
We believe that the M&A process should be an integrated and relationship focused endeavour where we seek to change the lives of our clients and their families by delivering a best-in-class M&A experience that is built on a foundation of shared goals, respect, transparency and a genuine care for the well-being of our clients.
High Performance
Our ability to excel is based solely off our ability to deliver results. As such, we are performance driven company with the goal of obtaining the best outcomes for our clients while staying true to our values.
Inclusivity
We seek to create a truly inclusive environment for our team. More specifically, we are focused on bringing on the best talent, regardless of their gender, skincolour, sexual orientation, physical abilities and so forth. Over 60% of our team is female or a visible minority. In fact, we were founded and led by a female who gets that to truly be inclusive we need to provide an work environment and culture that doesn’t abide by the investment banking culture of the past. We are the difference.
We nurture a culture of gratitude, respect and appreciation
We spend a lot of time working together and as such its incredibly important that team membersfeel respected, appreciated and that we share gratitude on a daily basis. We value this so much that it’s a core value and we start every internal meeting off with a gratitude session.
Thinking Big
We're growing and are aiming to change the M&A industry and become a global name in the industry. We aim to deliver a best-in-class experience to our clients with deal our results being the proof in the pudding.
We're Hungry and Merit Focused
We seek team members who are hungry and crave success in this industry and everything that comes with it. Nepotism does not exist at RWT and we on-board new team members based on their actual abilities and not where they went to school, their family circles, social status and etc.
Great People
We want the best talent on our team. For a typical position, we receive well over 250 applications. Make it in and you will be working with some of the best talent in our industry.
Perks
We treat our team members well. This includes regular team lunches, coffee, RWT swag you actually want (think Nike, Patagonia, Fjall Raven, Yeti, Arcteryx), dinners, drinks, semi-annual off-site retreats at locations that you actually want to go to and monthly team building.
Fun
Our mindset is that if you are going to work hard, be focused on delivering results and otherwise be all in; the place where you work should be a lot of fun. Between team building, weekly wine o-clocks (including non-alcoholic and mocktails) and our offsites; we make having fun a priority.
Autonomy and Work Life Integration
In the office 8 am to 6 pm… maybe at other investment banking firms but not at RWT. While this is industry can be intense and demanding (there is no getting around it), we focus on providing our employees with the ability to ensure that they can get their work done while not missing out on the things that matter in life. This means giving employees the autonomy to manage their schedules best while expecting high performance.
