Zachary St. Martin

Zachary St. Martin is the Head of the North America Commercial and Intellectual Property Legal team for ByteDance, supporting TikTok and other ByteDance products and services, such as CapCut and Lemon8. He manages a large team of business and legal affairs counsel who handle ByteDance’s commercial activity in content, distribution, product partnerships, marketing, corporate services and procurement, trust and safety, communications, and government relations and subject matter function in intellectual property managing ByteDance’s copyright, trademark, anti-counterfeiting, brand management, and identity legal functions. He is a member of the ByteDance North America legal leadership team.

Practicing law for 23 years, Zach has extensive in house legal experience in media and content, intellectual property, product counseling, and privacy and has advised large, medium and startup stage tech, media and ad tech companies. In addition to ByteDance, Zach has worked for MySpace (social networking); Sony Pictures (global media networks & global content distribution); Fox Interactive Media (digital services); 8i (AR & VR production and tech startup where he was general counsel); and Viant Technology (Ad Tech/DSP/DMP). 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 (the Cajun coast of the Gulf of Mexico) and 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 with his wife, hiking and bike riding, live music, and playing with his Brussels Griffon, Boudreaux.