Simon Crompton
Managing editor
Martin Goldberg, director in investment banking legal at Barclays Capital in New York, has spent most of his career jumping back and forth across the Atlantic. Educated in the US, he qualified there before moving to London, back to New York, once more in the UK and then finally settling in the US. And he was in Paris for a while as well. But having ended up in BarCap after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, that pond-hopping is over.
Goldberg finished Cornell law school in 1984, worked briefly for a small firm in New York and then switched after a year to join Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. Eighteen months later, he was offered a role in the firm's new, still small London operation. Having lived outside the US previously, in Hong Kong for seven months before starting law school, he wanted to repeat the experience....