Litigation & Arbitration

Nola Heller is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, a member of the Litigation & Arbitration Group, and co-head of the New York office’s White Collar and Investigations Group.

With nearly 20 years of experience as a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney, Nola regularly serves as lead counsel on behalf of global financial institutions, multinational companies, boards, and individuals in high-stakes investigations and multimillion-dollar criminal and regulatory enforcement matters.

Nola specializes in representing institutional clients in enforcement-related matters in light of her significant experience appearing before federal and state regulators including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Reserve, New York Department of Financial Services, FINRA, and State Attorneys General.

Institutional clients also frequently turn to Nola to lead sensitive internal investigations involving allegations of workplace misconduct and in response to whistleblower complaints on a wide variety of subjects, as well as in compliance matters. She has a particular expertise in recordkeeping matters related to employees’ use of personal devices for business communications.

Individuals call on Nola to defend them in major federal criminal matters given her years of experience prosecuting and supervising federal cases as an Assistant United States Attorney in Southern District of New York, as well as her successful track record in obtaining favorable dispositions for her clients.

Nola also has significant experience in cryptocurrency matters, frequently representing individuals and institutions in cryptocurrency-related criminal and regulatory probes.

Her extensive litigation experience includes leading or supervising more than forty federal jury trials and conducting multiple appellate arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.