Saba Nazar, co-head global financial sponsors group at Nomura, was named an FN Rising Star in 2008. Since then she has risen from co-head of the European business to the global role and has overseen one of the year’s most “aggressive” private equity deal financings - the debt package for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' buyout of retailer Pets at Home. We look at where she is now.

Born and raised in Pakistan, the former Goldman Sachs banker joined Lehman Brothers in 2005 as a managing director in its financial sponsors group.