Heather Martin

Heather Martin focuses her practice on global litigation, commercial arbitration, and regulatory enforcement, with an emphasis on white collar criminal matters and other bet-the-company legal scenarios. Heather has more than 20 years of combined practice experience at Am Law 50 firms and in-house. This includes extensive trial, appeal, and investigations experience in matters featuring allegations of fraud, corruption, conspiracy, obstruction, and money laundering. Joint venture shareholder disputes, insolvency disputes and director liability matters are a core part of her practice.

She recently prevailed in a heavily contested creditor’s bid to remove a court-appointed liquidator from office. On matters that have gone to trial, she has successfully defended criminal and regulatory allegations of accounting fraud, front-running in public markets, public corruption, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

Heather’s sectoral experience is diverse and includes banking, other traditional finance, fintech, investment, energy, defense, real estate, infrastructure, hospitality, and health care. She has conducted numerous internal investigations and self-reporting to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including of potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).