Peter Skinner

Practice Areas

Peter M. Skinner is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White Collar Defense practice groups. Leveraging his experience as a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Peter represents companies, financial institutions, boards, and individuals through all phases of investigation and litigation. He is experienced in all aspects of white-collar crime, and his global practice focuses on regulatory compliance, white-collar defense, corporate internal investigations, and complex civil litigation.

Career

Before returning to private practice in 2015, Peter spent nearly eleven years at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he served as a senior prosecutor in the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit and Organized Crime Unit. He had extensive experience prosecuting international money laundering crimes and helped develop the prosecution of trade-based money laundering. Peter also frequently investigated global and domestic criminal organizations for racketeering, extortion, and labor corruption crimes. In 2012, Peter was named Prosecutor of the Year by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation for his work prosecuting RICO violations. In addition to his work as a criminal prosecutor, Peter also served in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, where he regularly advised the intelligence community on sensitive non-criminal matters affecting national security.

Peter was most recently a partner at another global law firm where he was the Head of Global Investigations and White Collar Defense group and, earlier in his career, practiced at another leading law firm in New York City.

Peter earned his B.A. in Government from University of Notre Dame and earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School, where he was elected Order of the Coif and he served as the Executive Editor of the Boston College Law Review.