Christopher Martin - Portland, OR

Education

Past Positions

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—Denver, CO & Miami, FL, Senior Trial Counsel, 2003 - 2025
• Beus Gilbert PLLC—Phoenix, AZ, Senior Associate, 1998 - 2003

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, Florida International University Law School—Securities Law Enforcement | 2013–2018
  
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy (“NITA”) – Advocate Designation
  
• SEC Chief Enforcement Attorneys & Trial Lawyers Conferences
  
• 2018 North American Securities Administrators Association: Speaker on multi-jurisdictional litigation cooperation

Representative Cases

• SEC v. Feingold, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2025)
• SEC v. Cumberland DRW LLC (N.D. Ill. 2024)
• SEC v. Sugranes, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2021)
• SEC v. Cetera Advisers, LLC, et al. (D. Colo. 2019)
• SEC v. Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., et al. (S.D. Fla. 2011)
• SEC v. Lauer, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2003)
• SEC v. Bell (D. Colo. 2024)
• SEC v. Austal Limited & Perciavalle (S.D. Ala. 2023)
• SEC v. Kubler, et al. (D. Neb. 2023)
• SEC v. Stone, et al. (S.D.N.Y. 2022)
• SEC v. Coggins, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2020)
• SEC v. 1 Global Capital LLC, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2019)
• SEC v. Jeffrey Brooks (S.D. Fla. 2017)
• SEC v. Quiros, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2016)
• SEC v. BIH Corp., et al. (M.D. Fla. 2014)
• SEC v. City of Miami, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2013)
• SEC v. Huff, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2010)
• SEC v. K.W. Brown, et al. (S.D. Fla. 2007)

Bar Admissions

• Arizona
• Oregon
• U.S. District Court District of Arizona
• U.S. District Court District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• Nebraska
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York

Other Affiliations

• Arizona State Bar sections: Securities Regulation Business Law and Trial Practice, 1997 - Present
• Oregon State Bar sections: Securities Regulation and Business Litigation, 1997 - Present
• Federal Bar Association & Independent Trustee Alliance (Member)