Matthew T. Martens

Matthew Martens is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who represents clients in their toughest civil and criminal investigations and litigation. He is one of the few lawyers who has appeared—and won—at trial at “all four tables”: civil plaintiff, civil defendant, criminal prosecution, and criminal defendant. In all, he has tried 26 cases ranging from securities fraud to patent infringement to consumer fraud to murder to employment law to money laundering, in New York, California, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Washington, South Dakota, New Jersey, and North Carolina. He has also argued 19 appeals in federal and state appellate courts across the country. Martens joined WilmerHale after a long career of government service, including both as Chief Litigation Counsel for the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and, earlier, as Chief of Staff for the Criminal Division at the US Department of Justice during the Bush Administration. He has been recognized as an AmLaw Daily Litigator of the Week, a National Law Journal Litigation Trailblazer, a Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star, among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America, and a Law360 Securities Law MVP.