A member of Waymaker’s Crypto-Assets Disputes, Fintech, and White Collar practices, Ashley Martabano excels at understanding her client’s businesses, understanding their legal challenges, and communicating “to clients in a way that is helpful, practical and clear.” (Crypto-Assets Dispute client, as told to Chambers.) In 2024, Ashley was ranked as an “Up and Coming” practitioner in Waymaker’s Band-1 Ranked Crypto Assets Disputes practice.
Ashley has extensive experience in representing FinTech and other clients in regulatory, criminal and civil matters. She is adept at understanding new technology and has represented entrepreneurs, companies, and early adopters in all types of criminal and regulatory defense matters (such as SEC, DOJ, CFTC, and state attorney generals), as well as in civil litigation. She also has extensive experience in RICO matters, off-label pharmaceutical investigations, False Claims Act cases, and FCPA matters.
Ashley began her career at Quinn Emanuel handling complex civil and criminal matters, and briefly served as a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles through the TAP program where she handled both preliminary hearings and a jury trial in state court. Before beginning her practice in the US, Ashley spent a year in South Africa litigating constitutional women’s rights as a Harvard Henigson Human Rights Fellow with the Women’s Legal Centre.