Martin L. Seidel

Martin L. Seidel is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office. Mr. Seidel has more than 30 years of experience in securities and corporate litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on corporate control contests, transaction-related securities and shareholder litigations, multiparty class actions and derivative litigations. He regularly advises on litigation matters related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), proxy fights and shareholder activism, securities laws, corporate accounting and disclosure, and corporate governance.

In addition, Mr. Seidel has tried cases before state and federal courts throughout the United States as well as arbitral tribunals around the globe. He has handled investigations before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as well as investigations by state and federal prosecutors and state attorneys general across the country.

Mr. Seidel provides clients – including Fortune 500 companies, leading financial institutions, corporate boards, directors and senior executives – with guidance on:

• M&A, corporate control and activism-related litigation
• corporate control and corporate governance issues
• complex securities, shareholder and derivative litigations
• insider trading, market manipulation and accounting fraud litigations and investigations
• private equity and hedge fund disputes, including partnership disputes, disputes with investors and other stakeholders

Mr. Seidel also is a published author and frequent speaker on matters of corporate governance, securities litigation, directors and officers insurance, and complex litigation.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Seidel was a litigation attorney for an international law firm in its New York office.