pranav jithesh

NYU Stern · Finance & Accounting · ’27

My Work / meteora

event-driven

meteora capital~$1B AUM

analyst · sept 2025 – jan 2026

Merger arbitrage at an event-driven fund: working out what could break a deal, how likely that was, and whether the spread was paying enough for it.

  • Assessed regulatory and timing tail risk on live deals through precedent analysis and channel checks
  • Modeled deal-break probability distributions across merger targets
  • Turned the research into actionable position recommendations
Notes / about-me

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about me

  • NYU Stern student in finance & accounting, focused on event-driven investing and equity research.
  • I like work that gets marked to market: a pitch with a price target, a deal spread that either closes or breaks.
  • Right now: senior year at Stern, running Spark Tutors, and trading my own book of equities and options.
  • Before that: merger arb at Meteora Capital, sector research at Baird Augustine, and pitches with the Capital Markets Club.
  • Also: six years in Civil Air Patrol, where I commanded an 86-cadet flight and led our cybersecurity team to 7th in the nation.
basedNew York, NY
focusevent-driven · research · markets
toolsExcel · Python · SQL · Bloomberg · CapIQ
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