Formerly Managing Director with international investment bank NM Rothschild, thirty years in investment banking and financial services industry, twenty of those in corporate finance advisory.Extensive record of corporate finance experience in strategy formulation, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, debt and equity raising, debt restructuring, listings, valuations and project management. Led strategy formulation assignments for listed companies as well and the formulation and execution of complex, cross border corporate restructurings and M&A transactions.Led advisory teams on numerous landmark South African transactions, including: the acquisition of controlling interests in Absa by Barclays, in Illovo Sugar by British Sugar, and in Massmart by Wal-Mart; the listings of Massmart, Woolworths, Truworths, MPact, and Brait; strategy formulation for Vodacom, Old Mutual and Illovo Sugar; and restructurings for Brait, Old Mutual and Wooltru (Woolworths, Truworths and Massmart).Won the industry’s top award as South Africa’s Dealmaker of the Year in February 2011.Advisory role clients: Wal-Mart, Associated British Foods, British Sugar, Illovo Sugar, ABSA, Standard Bank, Old Mutual, Mutual & Federal, Coronation, Vodacom, Wooltru, Woolworths, Truworths, Gold One, Bond Exchange of South Africa, Transnet, Blue Financial Services, Tiso Capital, Brait SA, Capital Alliance, Imperial Holdings, African Harvest, Jasco, Unifer, Tradehold, Metorex, Ghanaian Government.Avised on numerous restructuring, distressed company and business rescue situations. Actively practice advising companies in financial distress and/or as Senior Business Rescue Practitioner running business rescue proceedings.Following on from Dealmaker of the Year in February 2011, won Dealmakers Business Rescue of the Year for 2021