Zachary St. Martin

Zachary St. Martin is the principal behind St. Martin Advisory PC.

Practicing law for 25 years, Zach has extensive in-house legal experience in media and content, tech transactions, intellectual property, product counseling, and data privacy and has advised large, medium and startup stage tech, media, content and production, and ad tech companies.

Most recently, Zach was the Head of the North America Commercial and Intellectual Property Legal team for ByteDance, supporting TikTok and other ByteDance products and services like CapCut, Pico, and Lemon8. He managed a large team of business and legal affairs counsel who handled ByteDance’s legal commercial activity in content, distribution, product partnerships, marketing, and technology; and subject matter function in intellectual property.

In addition to ByteDance and TikTok, Zach has worked for MySpace (social networking); Sony Pictures (global media networks & global content distribution); Fox Interactive Media (digital services); 8i (augmented and virtual reality production and tech startup where he was general counsel); and Viant Technology (ad tech). Zach spent the first five years of his career in Latham & Watkins’ Los Angeles office as an associate in the firm’s corporate department.

Zach is a native of Houma, Louisiana from the Cajun Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, who returns often for visits to New Orleans, where he earned a BSE in biomedical engineering from Tulane’s School of Science & Engineering and a JD (Summa Cum Laude & Order of the Coif) from Tulane Law School.

Zach’s non legal interests include photography, travel, hiking and bike riding, live music, and playing with toddler-aged son and his Brussels Griffon, Boudreaux.