Peter Carter is a business litigator who specializes in the area of securities litigation and other legal disputes involving public companies and financial institutions. He serves as the co-Chair of the Securities Litigation & Enforcement practice group and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. His trial experience is significant and includes: obtaining a defense verdict on behalf of a large bank following an eight week jury trial; successfully representing a public company in a dissenters’ rights action against an activist public pension plan; and obtaining a finding of no additional tax liability in a significant U.S. Tax Court case involving the valuation of a large, well-known private company.
For the past four years he has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Bet the Company and Commercial Litigation.
Peter’s clients also regularly prevail in cases before trial through summary judgment or dismissal orders. He has successfully defended many public companies and their officers and directors in securities class actions and in breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits challenging mergers and acquisitions and other corporate actions. He has litigated in Delaware Chancery Court and argued before the Delaware Supreme Court.
Peter also represents companies and individuals before the SEC and has advised audit committees and conducted independent investigations for those committees on issues relating to ethics complaints, restatements, stock options issues and other Sarbanes-Oxley matters.