Professional Qualifications

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Prior Experience

Previous experience includes being head of structured products at Calyon (formerly part of Credit Lyonnais and now Credit Agricole in London), where Martin was responsible for originating and structuring project bonds, high yield bonds and securitisation products and as a member of the debt structuring team of Greenwich Natwest (now RBS) where he was responsible for structuring solutions and modelling regulatory capital impacts for bond and debt products.

Martin previously headed finance teams at three international law firms and acted for one as their London Office Managing Partner. Martin originally trained at and spent seven years with a 'magic circle' firm in London and Hong Kong.

Education

• University of London, Kings College, LLM (Hons), 1986
• College of Law of England and Wales, Lancaster Gate, Law Society Finals, 1987

Thought leadership

Martin brings to legal structuring a rare combination of experience as a structured finance investment banker, financial modeller and leading financing lawyer.

Martin has been at the forefront of developing legal structures for many years and has worked on several first of type transactions. Noteable firsts include:

• first international securitisation out of Poland and first securitisation to receive PCS label in Poland (Santander Consumer Bank S.A.)
• first project bond to receive benefit of UK government credit wrap under IUK scheme (Mersey Gateway Project)
• first project bond post financial crisis (Leeds County Council);
• first PCS label auto securitisation in the UK (FGA - A-best 8);
• first project finance securitisation in Yemen (Pemberley Finance);
• first credit derivatives product company in Europe (Deutsche Bank);
• first credit card principal financing in the UK (Compucredit);
• first mortgage securitisation in Kazakhstan (BTA Group);
• first ever PFI project bond to be completed in the UK (RBC).