Martina Asmar

Partner, corporate

London

e:
martina.asmar@herbertsmith.com
t:

+44 20 7466 2473

Martina Asmar

Martina specialises in corporate finance and capital markets work. She has extensive experience advising both corporates and investment banks on equity issues, debt capital market transactions and equity-linked debt. She speaks German and French. 

Credentials

  • Goldman Sachs as sole global coordinator and bookrunner on the US$120 million convertible bond offering for Winbond Electronics Corp, one of the largest branded integrated circuit (IC) device manufacturers in Taiwan and a leading global supplier of semiconductor solutions 
  • Invista Real Estate Investment Management Limited, the UK's largest listed real estate fund manager, on the £176.6 million IPO of its new continental European real estate fund
  • Jefferies International Limited and Collins Stewart on the AIM listing of Somero Enterprises, a US company
  • BlueBay Asset Management plc, one of Europe's largest independent managers of fixed income credit funds, on its admission to the Official List and £571 million listing on the London Stock Exchange
  • JPMorgan Cazenove on its role as nominated adviser and placing agent on the £30 million AIM listing of Cazenove Absolute Equity Limited (a hedge fund of funds)
  • Fortune Brands on its issues of €300 million 3.5% notes due 2009 and €500 million 4% notes due 2013
  • Tata Power on raising $200 million through a five-year foreign currency convertible bond issue
  • The Development and Investment Projects Fund of the Jordan Armed Forces raising $145m through the issue of 15-year amortising bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
  • Swiss Life on its SFr1.1 billion rights issue, associated restructuring and various mandatory convertible bond issues
  • Allied Zurich on the unification of the Zurich Financial Services Group under a single holding company valued at £24 billion
  • France Télécom, Air France and Crédit Lyonnais on their privatisations
  • Jefferies on a pre-IPO convertible bond for ND TV Networks, a leading Indian television station
  • UBS, Lehman Brothers and ABN AMRO as underwriters on the US$500 million IPO and Euronext listing of Lehman Brothers Private Equity Partners Limited, a Guernsey incorporated fund of private equity funds
  • various other bond issues (including equity-related bonds) issued by BAA, BSkyB, Anglian Water, Promodès and Vseobecna Uverova Banka (the leading Slovak commercial bank)

 

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