Leadership
Martin Ridler has an extensive breadth and depth of experience in providing financial and strategic advice to his clients across the globe. He has executed numerous capital market transactions, IPOs, equity and debt placements, capital increases and convertible bonds across capital markets in Germany, the UK and US, as well as M&A deals in Europe, the US and Latin America. His client base encompasses large and mid-cap businesses, both in public and private ownership, company Boards, entrepreneurs and start-ups, families and institutional investors.
Martin Ridler, lic. oec. HSG
Background
Martin has over 25 years of experience providing financial and strategic advice to his clients. He has worked for twelve years in senior positions at Morgan Stanley in London and Frankfurt, latterly heading the Healthcare Investment Banking Practices in various healthcare subsections, including Emerging Markets out of London. Before that, he was a member of the corporate finance and M&A teams at Deutsche Bank, Schroders (now Citi) and SBC Warburg (now UBS).
Martin received a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a Major in Finance and Accounting from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Personal
After having spent over two decades abroad, Martin now spends his professional life between Vienna and London. He is married with two sons and one daughter and enjoys Vienna’s vast vast cultural offering, and is also a keen fly fisherman. He and his entire family are avid Chelsea Football Club supporters and members of the CFC.
Experience
Our experience in advising our clients on a wide spectrum of financial and strategic transactions has shaped our ability to identify underlying industry trends, understand macroeconomic challenges, and guide our clients to a successful outcome. Our execution capability combines a skilful and creative approach with an extensive knowledge base to offer tailored advice.
Our primary commitment is to serve our clients and offer the best possible advice. Our clients’ interest are at the forefront of our services, and we see our Firm in a constructive partnership with our clients.
Our senior management is directly involved in every aspect of day-to-day execution on our transactions. Process and guarantees the best possible results for our clients.
Our Firm’s success is built on the principle of trust and integrity. We focus on building a long-term relationship with our clients that helps shaping their strategy and vision. We value discretion and confidentiality as a basis of our work.
We focus exclusively on financial and strategic advice to our clients. We are not incentivised to provide additional services such as underwriting, lending, trading or research and do not adhere to additional stakeholders.
Our significant transaction experience, both in a private and public markets context, has helped us build an unparalleled network and far-reaching relationships for excellence in execution.
For us, every client relationship is unique. We work in a partnership with our clients to offer a customized approach to their individual questions. We believe in a collaborative environment to maximize value for our clients.
Our clients are interest are at the forefront of our advice
Sidro Advisors is a trusted partner of leading enterprises, boards of directors, management teams, entrepreneurs, families and institutional investors in Europe and other regions globally. We focus on building a long-term relationship with our clients that helps shaping their strategy and vision. Our clients’ interest are at the forefront of our advisory services, and we see our Firm in a constructive partnership with our clients.
Our clients include:
Small and mid sized companies
Entrepreneurs and shareholders
Large, private and listed global active corporates
Institutional and family owned industry holdings
Institutional investors investing equity, mezzanine and debt capital
Early stage companies