Peter Pound focuses his practice on securities regulatory matters, litigation and arbitration, and internal investigations. Peter represents brokerage firms, other financial services firms and individuals in connection with investigations brought by the SEC, FINRA and state regulators. His practice also involves representing and counseling business entities, corporate and trust boards, and individuals in a wide variety of litigation and non-litigation settings. Peter defends clients in class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and corporate governance and other disputes. He has experience in arbitration settings, before federal and state courts, and in mediations. 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 firm’s hiring partner for the Boston office and chairs its Boston 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 Hon. Charles D. Gonthier in the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to joining Bingham, Peter was a faculty lecturer at McGill’s Faculty of Law and the director of the faculty’s legal research, writing and pleading program.

In 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, 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.”

Peter is conversant in French.