Martina Simpkins

Martina is a Managing Director at Prime Transatlantic. Trained as a lawyer in both her native Germany and the United States, she provides strategic, legal, and policy advice to corporate clients, with a particular focus on the transatlantic relationship and on Germany.

Her practice spans energy, climate and natural resources, pharmaceuticals, media and high tech, international trade, and foreign investment. She has represented Fortune 50 multinationals alongside startup ventures and European businesses and trade associations operating in the U.S., and frequently works with stakeholder coalitions to shape international negotiations and regulatory and legislative processes.

She is fluent in English, German, and Spanish, with a working command of French. She is admitted to practice law in Washington, D.C., New York, and Frankfurt, Germany.

Before being named Managing Director at Prime Policy Group and then at Prime Transatlantic, Martina spent more than fourteen years at international law firms — as a partner at Schmitz Global Partners LLP, of Counsel at Bingham McCutchen LLP, and Senior International Advisor in Mayer Brown LLP's Government and Global Trade Practice.

She holds an LL.M. in International Law from the George Washington University Law School (2004) and a J.D. from the University of Saarland, Germany (1998), and studied European and International Law at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid (1994-1995).