Aadi Vijay
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Law School App Coach | Columbia Law JD Candidate | UChicago Graduate
Studied at Columbia Law School
Worked at Weiss Asset Management
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Aadi’s Law School Qualifications
Aadi has helped clients get into these schools:
Hi everyone, welcome to my profile! I assist prospective law school applicants with variety of application-related tasks, ranging from essay writing and resume refinement to broader application strategy and school selection. A bit about me: I am a future Columbia Law School JD candidate and completed by undergraduate in Economics from the University of Chicago. I have worked in a variety of careers centered around finance, including work in the hedge fund, private equity, and investment banking industries. I have experience coaching applicants of both undergraduate and law school institutions and look forward to working with you to achieve your educational aspirations!
Aadi can help with:
Application Strategy
CAS Application Edit
Essays
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Interviews
Recommendations
Resume
School Selection
Waitlist Strategy
Work Experience
Financial Analyst
Weiss Asset Management
July 2022 - February 2025
• Supporting the Legal and Treasury teams on prime broker and swap financing, namely by drafting and negotiating financing agreements and margin terms to enhance funding protection and build out new financing capabilities • Performing legal-related investment analysis for various fund strategies with an emphasis on merger arbitrage. Responsibilities include analyzing merger agreements, assessing the probability of deal closure given deal-specific conditions precedent and ongoing antitrust litigation (if applicable), and constructing models to evaluate expected profit/loss based on said economic and legal analyses • Assisting the Treasury and Operations teams with project management and integration of third-party infrastructure systems geared towards improving middle- and back-office collateral management workflows
Investment Banking and Capital Markets Summer Analyst
Credit Suisse
July 2021 - September 2021
• Assisted the Industrials team on ~$3B merger between industry-leading Singaporean offshore marine companies. Drafted marketing and discussion materials and partook in the financial valuation processes, including assisting on components of the merger model for the pro-forma entity • Worked alongside the CRH team on a ~$300M IPO of a Malaysia-based farming-focused retail company. Constructed preliminary marketing and investing materials, including kick-off books, investing memorandums, draft prospectus for use in the IPO process • Supported the RE team on a ~$250M joint-investment with Warburg Pincus into a Vietnamese real-estate giant. Assisted in drafting investment memos and leveraged Bloomberg, Factset, Excel, and company filings to support three-statement deal flow modeling • Constructed and refreshed operational benchmarks for 50+ SEA REITs, and drafted marketing and discussion materials, including company profiles, teasers, memos, and management presentations
Private Equity Investment Research Analyst
RCP Advisors
November 2019 - April 2020
• Assisted in the investment decision making processes by auditing, transforming, and analyzing data analytics and fund performance of 500+ middle-market firms and investable PE funds through use of a company-specific centralized data base • Engaged in portfolio oversight and management by leveraging tools such as Bamsec, Factset, Tableau and Salesforce to evaluate investment performance on the basis of IRR and ROIC
Summer Analyst
EY
August 2019 - September 2019
• Audited financial models in the asset management industry. Reviewed models included Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) valuations and future earnings projections for mid- to large-cap companies • Assisted in modeling the fixed income market and evaluated the potential creation of a sovereign wealth fund in used to consolidate government-linked enterprises under a single investment vehicle
Education
Columbia Law School
Juris Doctor (JD)
2025 - 2028
University of Chicago
Bachelor's of Arts, Economics
2018 - 2022
Cumulative GPA: 3.95 / 4.00 Academic Honors: Summa Cum Laude (2022), Phi Beta Kappa (2022), Gary Becker Scholar (2020-2021), Robert Maynard Hutchins Scholar (2020), Dean’s List (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021), Metcalf Fellow (Fall 2019, Winter 2020) Relevant University Coursework: Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Money and Banking, Marketing Management, International Financial Policy, Legal Infrastructure of Business, Multivariable Calculus, Statistical Analysis, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Econometrics I, Microeconomics I, Macroeconomics I
International School Manila
international Baccalaureate (IB Diploma)
2017 - 2018
IB Diploma Score: 45/45 Courses: Mathematics (higher level), Physics (higher level), Economics (higher level), Chemistry (standard level), Literature (standard level), Spanish (standard level)
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Overall Rating
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Aadi has helped clients get into these schools: