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Milbank Offices
55 HUDSON YARDS
NEW YORK, NY 10001
NEW YORK
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Nola Heller
Work Department
Litigation & Arbitration
Position
Nola Heller is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, a member of the Litigation & Arbitration Group, and co-head of the New York office’s White Collar and Investigations Group.
Career
With nearly 20 years of experience as a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney, Nola regularly serves as lead counsel on behalf of global financial institutions, multinational companies, boards, and individuals in high-stakes investigations and multimillion-dollar criminal and regulatory enforcement matters.
Nola specializes in representing institutional clients in enforcement-related matters in light of her significant experience appearing before federal and state regulators including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Reserve, New York Department of Financial Services, FINRA, and State Attorneys General.
Institutional clients also frequently turn to Nola to lead sensitive internal investigations involving allegations of workplace misconduct and in response to whistleblower complaints on a wide variety of subjects, as well as in compliance matters. She has a particular expertise in recordkeeping matters related to employees’ use of personal devices for business communications.
Individuals call on Nola to defend them in major federal criminal matters given her years of experience prosecuting and supervising federal cases as an Assistant United States Attorney in Southern District of New York, as well as her successful track record in obtaining favorable dispositions for her clients.
Nola also has significant experience in cryptocurrency matters, frequently representing individuals and institutions in cryptocurrency-related criminal and regulatory probes.
Her extensive litigation experience includes leading or supervising more than forty federal jury trials and conducting multiple appellate arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Praised for its ‘tremendous acumen’, Milbank assists clients in all facets of corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense, with many of its attorneys having held previous positions with regulatory and enforcement authorities. New York-based George Canellos and Daniel Perry, both experienced trial lawyers, jointly lead the practice alongside Nola Heller, also in New York, who arrived from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in September 2023. Adam Fee, who is active in the firm’s Los Angeles office, is a name to note for cross-border fraud and money laundering matters. Antonia Apps left the firm in January 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: transactional
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Antitrust > Cartel