Jeff Martino brings an in-depth understanding of a wide variety of white collar and fraud related matters to his antitrust litigation and investigations practice. He represents multinational corporations and their boards and executives in high-stakes criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal and state agencies. Having spent nearly two decades at the DOJ and his last 7 years as a senior leader in two different DOJ components, he has extensive experience as “first chair” on trials and investigations in the most complex areas of criminal antitrust. Jeff's work at DOJ included providing technical assistance to competition agencies in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe and overseeing matters that included international corruption and antitrust cartel offenses that entangled the largest global banks and their key executives.
As Chief of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division’s New York Office, Jeff oversaw approximately 25 federal prosecutors investigating price fixing, bid rigging, FCPA violations, and other corporate fraud and corruption offenses, including market manipulation, spoofing, tax fraud, procurement fraud, money laundering, bribery, and obstruction.
Jeff is well-versed in the nuances of antitrust compliance guidelines, having led the first Antitrust Division prosecution to recognize a corporate compliance program at the sentencing phase and played a significant role in developing the Antitrust Division’s recent policy change to consider crediting compliance programs at the charging phase. Utilizing his experience working with financial regulators both internationally and domestically, competition agencies abroad, and prosecutors across the United States, Jeff advises companies and their senior executives on best practices to avoid risk and ensure holistic compliance in key business units. Additionally, he has considerable experience overseeing investigations involving human resource professionals, specifically in the context of "no poach" agreements.
Prior to his role as Chief of the New York Office, Jeff served as Chief of the United States Attorney’s Office in Arizona’s Financial Crimes and Public Integrity Section and the Civil Rights Coordinator, where he supervised a team of prosecutors that handled a wide variety of matters, including public corruption, civil rights offenses, health care fraud, tax fraud, mortgage fraud, embezzlement, money-laundering, and counterfeiting.
Jeff’s experience overseeing and conducting investigations and trials in the most complex criminal antitrust cases ever filed allows him to efficiently navigate claims of collusion that may impact antitrust laws, as well as other forms of fraud, to reach a fair and just resolution for clients.