Ms Linda Martin > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Linda Martin
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Linda is a partner in the firm’s dispute resolution practice and co-head of our global class and collective actions group. Linda has extensive experience resolving complex and cross-border commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and practice areas, and in all stages of business dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration and mediation. Based in New York, she appears regularly in federal, state and bankruptcy courts across the United States.
Career
Linda’s clients are global in scope, and she is particularly adept at helping them navigate multinational challenges, especially those arising from the overlapping and sometimes conflicting procedural, factual and regulatory regimes in which they operate. She also works frequently with our transactional and finance teams in advising corporate executives and boards on transaction-related litigation risk and corporate governance matters.
Memberships
- Board of Visitors, Duke University School of Law
- Chairperson Emeritus, Board of Directors, Children’s Tumor Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to funding research and finding a cure for neurofibromatosis
- Former President, Board of Directors, Duke University Law Alumni Association
- Former Co-Chair, Board of Directors, DukeNY, a tri-state alumni association for graduates of Duke
Education
Linda received her JD, cum laude, from Duke University School of Law, where she is on the Board of Visitors and was an editor for the Duke Law Journal, and her BA, cum laude, from Harvard University.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is capable of representing a broad range of high-end commercial and corporate clients in the full suite of complex litigation and arbitration matters. Linda Martin and Tim Harkness co-chair the team; Harkness focuses on fraud, breaches of contract and post-M&A disputes whilst Martin predominantly counsels multinational corporations on their US litigation exposure. The team’s third co-chair is Gayle Klein, who joined the firm in 2023 from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and is noted for her strengths in financial services litigation and trade secrets disputes. David Livshiz is a further key contact who stands out for his bankruptcy litigation expertise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Tax > Financial products
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- International trade > CFIUS
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism