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Erin E. Martin

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Erin Martin counsels a wide range of clients, including public companies and their boards, investment funds and asset managers, and financial institutions with respect to securities regulation, capital markets transactions, and corporate governance matters, drawing on her long tenure at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Division of Corporation Finance. Erin regularly advises on complex issues arising under US federal securities laws, including SEC disclosure and compliance; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations; crypto asset matters; and corporate transactions. Erin is the leader of the interdisciplinary corporate and business transactions practice in the Washington, DC office and co-leads the firm’s fintech practice.

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Before joining Morgan Lewis in 2022, Erin served as legal branch chief in the SEC’s Division of Corporation, where she oversaw legal reviews of transactional filings and periodic reports filed by a broad range of public companies, including special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate-related finance companies, exchange-traded commodity pools, and spot crypto exchange-traded products. As the senior legal advisor, she was ultimately responsible for the legal reviews of all securities transactions and required SEC filings, such as initial public offerings, secondary offerings, spinoffs, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), tender offers, annual and quarterly filings, proxy materials, and sales literature.

She also managed the division’s review program for offerings of crypto assets, including the development of the staff’s interpretation positions to the first public offerings of tokens. Throughout her more than 13-year career at the SEC, Erin served in other leadership roles, which included oversight of disclosure and transactional filings made by financial institutions, including fintech, marketplace lenders, and bank holding companies. Erin also served as a legal and policy advisor in the Office of Chief Counsel, where she provided interpretative legal guidance concerning many aspects of the federal securities laws, including exemptive positions and requests for no-action relief, and spent many proxy seasons as part of the SEC’s Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposal Taskforce, including as co-manager of the taskforce.

Erin is an active member of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Committee on the Federal Regulation of Securities and serves as vice chair of the Public Reporting and Compliance Subcommittee.

  • New York Law School, 2008, J.D., cum laude; Executive Editor, New York Law School Law Review
  • Marymount Manhattan College, 2004, B.A., cum laude
  • District of Columbia
  • Maryland
  • New York

Recommended, Finance: Fintech, The Legal 500 US (2025)

Recommended, M&A/corporate and commercial: Corporate governance, The Legal 500 US (2025)

Member, Best ETF Law Firm, ETF Express US Awards (2022)

Co-chair, Corporate Law and Business Committee, DC Bar Association (2022)

Member, American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Committee on the Federal Regulation of Securities, and Vice Chair, Public Reporting and Compliance Subcommittee