Sarah Martin

Course Director at IFF

Trainer

Sarah Martin has worked as a financial trainer for over ten years for many major financial institutions in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. She trains in financial and credit analysis, company valuation, financial modelling and distressed debt. The delegate profile ranges from graduates to board members. She has a degree in economics from the London School of Economics and stock exchange qualifications from London and New York.

Prior to her career in financial training, Sarah spent seventeen years working as an investment banker in Europe and the US. She started her career as a graduate trainee at Kleinwort Benson and later became an Executive Director of CSFB and Lehman Brothers. She has principally worked in the credit markets and has experience of the US and European high grade and high yield markets, the European new issue markets, the Asian convertible bond markets and of corporate restructurings of distressed credits.

She specialised in the telecoms sector and was closely involved in the structuring, raising and/or trading of bank and public debt for telecoms companies in many countries, including Europe, South Africa, Asia and Latin America. She also has extensive experience of corporate finance transactions, including mergers, disposals, privatisations, IPOs and capital raisings. She has also worked as an expertise witness in financial lawsuits.