Peter Pound

About Peter Pound

T. Peter R. Pound focuses his practice on securities regulatory matters, litigation and…

Experience

1. Partner

   Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

   Nov 2014 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   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 serves as the 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.In September 2015, Peter was listed as a “Boston Rising Star” by The National Law Journal in collaboration with The Connecticut Tribune. From 2011–2015, Peter was selected as a Super Lawyers Massachusetts “Rising Star” in securities litigation. In 2008, he was one of 10 lawyers profiled in the London Times Online “Future Stars of America.”Before joining Morgan Lewis, Peter was a partner in the financial institutions regulatory, enforcement, and litigation practice at another international law firm, where he served as the firm’s hiring partner for the Boston office, and chaired the Boston hiring committee. He is also conversant in French.

Education

• University of Oxford

  B.A., Jurisprudence

  1997 — 1999

• McGill University

  LL.B; B.C.L., Law

  1999 — 2001

• McGill University

  B.A., Political Science

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Securities Litigation
• Internal Investigations
• Arbitration
• Litigation
• Courts
• Legal Research
• Commercial Litigation
• Securities / Regulatory Enforcement
• Class Actions
• Documatrix
• Corporate Governance
• Civil Litigation
• Mediation
• Broker-Dealer
• Appeals
• Securities Regulation
• Securities