T. Peter R. Pound focuses his practice on securities regulatory matters, litigation and arbitration, and internal investigations. Peter represents broker-dealers, financial services firms, 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 SEC, 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. Peter 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 for six years as Boston office hiring partner and 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 Stikeman Elliott in Montreal, Quebec. After graduating from McGill, he served as law clerk to the Honourable Charles D. Gonthier in the Supreme Court of Canada. He 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 presently serves as a Trustee of The Waring School, in Beverly, Massachusetts. He also serves on the Advancement Committee of the Inner City Scholarship Fund for the Catholic Schools Foundation. Peter is also a Board Member of Beverly Youth Hockey, and serves as a youth hockey coach and the coordinator of Beverly’s Learn-to-Skate program.
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Peter was a partner in the financial institutions regulatory, enforcement, and litigation practice at another international law firm. He is also conversant in French.
Arbitration and Litigation
Enforcement and Examinations
Investigations
Counseling
Pro Bono
Member, Law Firm of the Year, Securities Regulation, US News/Best Lawyers – Best Law Firms (2019)
Recognized, Securities Litigation, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2017–2022)
Recognized, Boston Rising Stars, The National Law Journal and Connecticut Law Tribune (2015)
Rising Star, Securities Litigation, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2011–2015)
Principal David L. Johnston Gold Medalist, McGill University Faculty of Law (2001)
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
Member, Boston Bar Association
British American Business Council of New England (Vice-President and Director (2020-2022), Clerk and Director (2018-2019), Vice-President, Clerk, and Director (2014–2017), and Clerk and Associate Director (2013))
Member, New England-Canada Business Council
Member, Canadian American Bar Association
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