Bio

Martin Glass is Co-Chair of Jenner & Block's firmwide Corporate Practice and serves on the firm’s Management Committee. He provides practical and strategic legal counsel to US and foreign companies in a wide array of transactional matters and has experience in a broad range of industries, including life sciences, technology, mining, energy, and financial services. For almost 25 years, Martin has focused on complex M&A and securities transactions. Domestic and foreign companies and their boards, as well as private equity funds, family offices, and investment banks hire Martin for his expertise in structuring and negotiating public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, SPAC transactions, public securities offerings, proxy contests, and other highly complex corporate transactions. Martin also regularly counsels clients on evolving reporting and corporate governance requirements under the US securities laws and the rules of the NYSE and NASDAQ. Martin has been named as a BTI Consulting Group Inc. "Client Service All-Star" based on the survey of general counsels of the Fortune 1000, an award that identifies attorneys that are "not just great—but head and shoulders above the rest as defined solely by clients." He has also been recognized by IFLR, Legal 500, Law360, and Chambers USA. Martin is an active member of the Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Proxy Contests of the New York City Bar Association.