Stephen Martin focuses his practice on global compliance matters, risk assessment and management and advising companies in connection with corporate internal and governmental investigations. He counsels clients on developing, implementing and enhancing corporate compliance and ethics programs to address a broad range of potential risks, including anti-corruption/anti-bribery (FCPA and UK Bribery Act), antitrust, privacy, cyber-security, data protection and information management, Dodd-Frank Act, environmental and corporate social responsibility.

Mr. Martin has significant government, corporate and private practice experience. He began his career as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Missouri, and subsequently served as an Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia. He later worked in-house in various roles as legal counsel and as lead compliance officer for several major corporations during which time he worked on significant governmental and internal investigations, litigation and compliance matters, including designing and implementing broad-based compliance programs. Mr. Martin also was integral in the creation and development of a corporate compliance consulting practice at an Am Law 100 law firm.

Mr. Martin works internationally with clients in handling both proactive and reactive compliance related matters. He has personally handled internal investigations; enterprise, global and in-country risk assessments; and compliance program/risk management enhancement and remediation work for clients in a number of different countries, including Russia/CIS region, Brazil, United Kingdom, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Philippines, Mexico, Madagascar, South Africa, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. Mr. Martin works with clients on a global basis across a wide array of industries, including retail, food and beverage, oil and gas, logistics/shipping, pharma/biotech, medical device, insurance, construction, manufacturing, telecom and private equity.