Tatiana Martins
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Ms. Martins is a partner in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department and its White Collar Defense & Investigations Group. She is an experienced trial lawyer, who served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for six years and the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. During her tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Martins was a lead prosecutor on nine federal jury trials and supervised more than a dozen additional trials as the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. Her practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in white-collar criminal defense and regulatory matters, and in conducting internal investigations, including in areas involving violations of anti-bribery laws, money laundering, and financial frauds.
In her previous role as Chief of the Public Corruption Unit, Ms. Martins led a team of over 20 prosecutors and successfully oversaw several major investigations and prosecutions, including those against Michael D. Cohen for campaign finance violations, bank fraud and tax fraud; NCAA basketball coaches and other individuals for bribery and wire fraud; the former Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor of New York for bribery and wire fraud related to the “Buffalo Billions” project; and high-level United Nations officials and others for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Martins tried to verdict multiple high-profile cases, including those of Sheldon Silver, the former Speaker of the New York Assembly, and Dean Skelos, the former New York Senate Majority Leader, for bribery and other corruption offenses. She also handled numerous investigations involving money laundering, mail fraud and wire fraud, and conducted the corruption investigations into the Office of the Mayor of New York City, and the shutdown by the Office of the Governor of New York State of the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.