Peter K.M. Chan is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice. Mr. Chan’s practice focuses on representing public companies, financial institutions, and related individuals in connection with litigation, investigations, and regulatory actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other financial regulators. He also provides compliance and regulatory advice regarding the municipal securities markets and investments by public pensions and other institutions.

Mr. Chan joined Morgan Lewis in 2014 following a long career at the SEC, most recently serving as assistant regional director in the Chicago Regional Office, where he led teams of lawyers, accountants, and investigators in the investigation and litigation of high-profile enforcement cases. In his close to 20-year career at the SEC, Mr. Chan investigated and litigated a broad range of SEC enforcement cases, including cases alleging corporate issuer disclosure and reporting violations, financial fraud, auditor independence violations, insider trading, broker-dealer misconduct and failure to supervise cases, hedge fund and investment company fraud, and Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley violations. In 2010, he was appointed as the head of the Chicago office’s Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit, and he oversaw cases involving municipalities and public pensions throughout the Midwest, including disclosure failures by states, cities, and underwriters in municipal bond offerings; pay-to-play and public corruption; and securities fraud victimizing municipalities and public pensions.