Nicholas Martin is an Associate at Elsberg Baker & Maruri. Nic handles a broad range of complex litigation matters on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. His clients include large public companies, investment firms and their members/managers, investors and trustees, and high net worth individuals.
Nic earned his J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he graduated first in his class and was a Senior Editor for the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. Prior to rejoining Elsberg Baker & Maruri, Nic practiced at Martland & Saulnier in Vancouver. Before that, Nic practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, following clerkships with Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada and Justices Stromberg-Stein and Harris of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia.
Representative Matters
- Represented a large public technology company in a series of complex contract disputes related to the company’s spin-off from its former parent company. In one of these disputes, Nic was the lead associate from case inception through completion of the full merits hearing in a confidential arbitration.
- Represented the Trustee of holders of Contingent Value Rights in a lawsuit against Bristol-Myers Squibb seeking $6.4 billion arising from Bristol-Myers Squibb’s failure to exercise diligent efforts in obtaining FDA approval of life-saving cancer therapies.
- Represented foreign representatives of several funds in liquidation abroad in Chapter 15 proceedings in Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, asserting foreign avoidance, common law, and breach of contract claims, seeking to recover about $6 billion in redemption payments from hundreds of entities arising out of the Madoff scheme.
- Represented the trustee for the Commonwealth Avoidance Actions Trust, seeking, among other things, recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars of underwriting fees and swap termination fees from 13 major Wall Street banks for their role in deepening Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.
- In two separate confidential arbitration proceedings, represented high net worth individuals in member/manager disputes under contracts governing investment funds.
Nic also has prior experience as a criminal defense lawyer, and he has worked with a leading AI start up advising on their litigation-specific use cases.
