T. Peter R. Pound
T. Peter R. Pound focuses his practice on securities regulatory matters, litigation and arbitration, and internal investigations. Peter represents broker-dealers, financial services firms, public companies, and individuals in civil litigation matters and arbitration proceedings relating to securities issues, and in connection with investigations, examinations, and enforcement proceedings brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), or state regulators. He conducts internal investigations on behalf of management or independent directors or trustees. He also counsels clients on a wide variety of regulatory, compliance, and corporate governance issues.
Peter is skilled in an arbitration setting, before federal and state courts, and in mediations. He has defended clients in class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and corporate governance and other disputes. Peter has also conducted numerous internal investigations, including for special committees of boards appointed to investigate demands made prior to the filing of a derivative suit.
Peter formerly served as the Boston office hiring partner for six years and was chair of the office’s Hiring Committee.
While undertaking his law degrees at Oxford University and later McGill University, Peter spent three summers as a summer associate at an international firm in Montreal, Quebec. After graduating from McGill, he served as law clerk to Judge Charles D. Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada. Peter was also a faculty lecturer at McGill’s Faculty of Law and the director of the faculty’s legal research, writing, and pleading program.
Peter currently serves as a trustee and is the chair of the Finance Committee for The Waring School in Beverly, Massachusetts. He also serves on the Advancement Committee of the Building Minds Scholarship Fund for the Catholic Schools Foundation. Peter volunteers as a track and field coach for Covenant Christian Academy in Peabody, Massachusetts. He is also the coordinator of Beverly’s Learn-to-Skate program, and was previously a youth hockey coach and board member of Beverly Youth Hockey (2017–2023).
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Peter was a partner in the financial institutions regulatory, enforcement, and litigation practice at another international law firm. He is conversant in French.
