Geoff Martin

Geoff provides strategic counsel on corporate compliance, ethics, and governance, with a focus on anti-bribery, fraud, anti-money laundering, sanctions, export controls, national security, and other corporate criminal and regulatory matters. He has extensive experience leading complex internal and government-facing investigations across the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.

Geoff regularly represents clients before enforcement authorities, regulators, and prosecutors in the US and collaborates with Baker McKenzie teams worldwide to navigate cross-border legal challenges. A frequent author on compliance, investigations, and regulatory developments in US and English law, Geoff shares insights on best practices in corporate ethics and governance, helping organizations strengthen their global compliance frameworks.

• Advising on practical effective and tailored compliance program design, development, enhancement and defense before regulators.
• Advising on effective compliance program and board governance and reporting for public, private and multinational companies.  
• Conducting global and multidisciplinary compliance risk assessments and program gap analysis. 
• Developing and rolling-out third party due diligence and risk management programs, including those related to vendor and sales channel partner risk. 
• Managing, executing and advising on complex multinational corporate criminal and compliance investigations.
• Managing whistleblowers, whistleblowing programs (including global ethics hotlines) and appropriate response to whistleblower complaints.
• Representing clients before multiple US government agencies, prosecutors and in court proceedings arising from corruption, fraud, sanctions and other corporate criminal matters.
• Advising on voluntary disclosures of potential legal violations to US prosecutors and enforcement authorities to maximize leniency and cooperation credit.
• Representing clients in successful settlement and resolution of corporate criminal and civil enforcement matters. 
• Working with government appointed compliance monitors. 
• Representing individual defendants in white collar criminal prosecutions. 
• Advising on compliance remediation and program enhancement following established legal violation, internal investigation or government enforcement action and defending compliance programs before regulators and enforcement agencies.
• Conducting compliance-related due diligence in merger and acquisition, joint venture and other strategic transactions. Addressing and remediating corporate criminal and other compliance issues identified during pre-acquisition due diligence or post-acquisition compliance integration. 
• Advising on and mitigating compliance risks in challenging markets and higher-risk global business transactions presenting corruption, product diversion and other risks. 
• Designing and executing effective compliance training.

• London