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Akin Offices
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Los Angeles, CA 90067-6022
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Peter I. Altman
Work Department
Partner, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Position
Peter represents investment management firms, public and private companies, and individuals in highly sensitive white collar and government investigations, enforcement proceedings, regulatory examinations, investment fund and securities litigation, and internal investigations. He has extensive experience in matters before the SEC, CFTC, DOJ and other regulators. He is a go-to lawyer in the investment funds space, assisting investment management clients with respect to regulatory compliance with federal securities and commodities laws. Peter is a leader in Akin’s digital assets, cryptocurrency & blockchain practice, representing senior executives, trading firms and exchanges in some of the most sophisticated and high-profile government investigations involving cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.
Peter’s practice draws from experience as an enforcement lawyer at the SEC, where he worked in the Division of Enforcement’s Market Abuse Unit.
To learn more about Peter, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/peter-i-altman
Career
Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement; Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank S. Maas, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Education
J.D., Brooklyn Law School, cum laude; Notes and Comments Editor, Brooklyn Law Review
B.A., University of Michigan, with honors
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Akin specializes in corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense, representing financial institutions—including banks, broker-dealers, and private investment funds, and their executives in complex investigations and enforcement actions under US and international securities and commodities laws. The firm handles matters involving insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, and other trading violations, defending clients before major regulatory bodies such as the DOJ, SEC, and CFTC. The practice is led by a team of experienced lawyers, including Charles Connolly in Washington DC , who focuses on financial fraud and regulatory enforcement. New York-based, Katherine R. Goldstein specializes in white-collar government and regulatory investigations, particularly in federal securities and commodities laws. Also acting out of New York, James J Benjamin, Jr brings extensive experience in government investigations and securities enforcement. Peter I. Altman in Los Angeles has deep expertise in securities class litigation, government enforcement matters, and internal investigations. Parvin Daphne Moyne , also in New York is skilled in white-collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)