Marty is a seasoned and highly respected corporate lawyer with a distinguished career spanning now four decades as a senior corporate and transactional lawyer. Marty’s sweet spot is advising early stage and growth-oriented businesses; the entrepreneurs who power them; and the financiers and sponsors that back them. He is sought out as a trusted strategic advisor, counselor, mentor and astute business lawyer with deep experience in a wide variety of complex business and transactional matters and mission-critical legal and commercial endeavors.

Marty has been a partner at several prestigious tech sector-oriented law firms, including O’Sullivan Graev, a pre-eminent New York corporate and transactional boutique; the New York office of the global law firm Orrick; and VLP Law Group, a pioneering virtual law firm. Most recently and prior to joining Flatiron, Marty worked inside an innovative legal tech start-up and former client of his, Reynen Court, where he headed up the company’s legal affairs and corporate development functions.

A veteran of the New York start-up and venture capital community, Marty is a thought leader in the movement to modernize the law firm business model – a core mission of our Firm.

Marty will head our Emerging Companies and VC practice and play a key role in our M&A practice as well.

He received his BA (with first class honours) from McGill University and JD from the New York University School of Law.