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.

Heather regularly represents joint venture members in shareholder disputes and has extensive experience in insolvency and director liability matters. She has worked for a diverse array of clients, including those in the banking, other traditional finance, fintech, investment, energy, defense, real estate, infrastructure, hospitality, and health care sectors. Heather has been a core member of trial teams that prevailed against criminal and regulatory allegations of accounting fraud, front-running in public markets, public corruption, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals. 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).

Prior to joining Jones Day, Heather headed litigation and regulatory affairs at Mubadala Investment Company in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where she responded to enforcement matters related to a multibillion dollar theft of bond proceeds from a Malaysian state-owned fund. She additionally supervised commercial disputes in more than 15 jurisdictions concerning both shareholder and portfolio company level issues and oversaw groupwide sanctions compliance and submissions related to foreign direct investment.