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)