Mr. Nicolas Martin joined Unicorn Investment Bank in 2009 as Managing Director, Strategic M&A. Mr. Martin has extensive international experience and throughout his 20 year career has managed some of the largest and most high profile M&A transactions recorded.
Prior to joining Unicorn, Mr. Martin was General Manager, Strategic M&A, at Fortis (based in Brussels and Hong Kong). During the three years that he held this position, Mr. Martin coordinated the entire M&A process of Fortis’ joint acquisition of ABN AMRO (Euros 744 billion), managing a team of 50 to close the transaction.
Mr. Martin began his career with ABN AMRO as a director in the bank’s Corporate Finance division. During his 15 years at ABN AMRO, he held various positions based in London, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, and was Executive Director, Business Development, prior to leaving the bank in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2006, Mr. Martin was a Client Industry Executive at EDS (London). He was responsible for the coverage of key French and Belgian financial institutions, driving financial institutions’ business development in EMEA South and heading up the global banking and capital markets group’s mandate to develop EDS’ future-state strategy.
Mr. Martin graduated from the University of Geneva with a BA in Business Administration (1984) and holds an MBA from INSEAD (1989).
