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Peter D. Hutcheon

Of Counsel | New Jersey

Peter D. Hutcheon practices primarily in the areas of business governance, commercial transactions, securities, banking, and finance.

Peter counsels management of public and private companies and banking institutions on governance matters. He is an expert on indemnification and insurance issues affecting directors and officers, and has represented parties in major public-private partnership financings. He also represents clients seeking investment capital from private placements, venture capital, and private equity deals, as well as firm commitment underwritten offerings of securities. Peter is experienced in securities matters ranging from stock options to dividend reinvestment plans, has extensive familiarity with bank regulatory matters, and has worked on mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry. Peter has represented both buyers and sellers in public and private business acquisition and financing transactions involving over $2 billion.

Peter is a long-time member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Business Law, Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Organizations Committee, and for 16 years was the editor of its newsletter, the PUBOGRAM. He has been named a Founding Fellow of the American College of LLC and Partnership Attorneys. Peter is the 2005 recipient of the Martin I. Lubaroff Award for his lifelong service to this Committee. He was a director for 22 years, including two years as chair, of the New Jersey State Bar, Corporate & Business Law Section, and also chaired the State Bar’s Banking Law Section. Peter was chairman of the New Jersey Corporate & Business Law Study Commission from its inception in 1989 to 2002, providing reports and suggestions on business law developments to the New Jersey Legislature and the governor. He chaired the New Jersey Securities Advisory Committee, appointed by the attorney general, from 1995 to 2001, and served as the American Bar Association’s Liaison to the New Jersey Bureau of Securities for over 32 years. He also chaired the ABA’s Section of Science and Technology and served on the Editorial Board of their quarterly journal, Jurimetrics, of which he previously served as Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief.

Peter is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® and is listed in the Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities and Acquisitions Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law, and Securities Regulation sections of the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers In America®. He has also been included on the list of New Jersey Super Lawyers in the Business/Corporate section every year since its inception in 2005 to 2020. Additionally, Peter has authored numerous articles on business-related law topics, including limited liability companies, securities, and directors and officers liability.

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Peter Hutcheon Reappointed to Jurimetrics Journal Editorial Board

Peter D. Hutcheon Reappointed to Jurimetrics Journal Editorial Board

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Peter D. Hutcheon Reappointed to Editorial Board of Jurimetrics

Fifteen Norris McLaughlin Attorneys Selected for Inclusion in Best Lawyers

Peter D. Hutcheon Appointed to Editorial Board of Jurimetrics

Fourteen Norris McLaughlin Attorneys Selected for Inclusion in Best Lawyers

Peter D. Hutcheon Appointed to Editorial Board of Jurimetrics

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Seventeen Norris McLaughlin Members Named Among Best Lawyers In America

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Articles

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When the “Back Door” is Closed: Muni Bond Underwriter Sanctioned

“Oh, Baloney!” SEC Sues Father, Son, and Friend for Manipulating the Stock of a New Jersey Deli

SEC Obtains Court Judgment Against Unregistered Municipal Advisors

Fiddling With FICC: Proposed Rule Changes re Capital Requirements

Who Pays and How Much? Consolidated Audit Trail Funding

Calling Sam Spade: SEC Charges Two N.C. Executives Who Used a Malta-based Entity to Steal Over $75 Million

The Fourth Crow: SEC Sues Nonexistent Fund and Unidentified Agents

Defrauding D Orders: SEC Cracks Down on Manipulative Day Trader

Even-handed Thievery: SEC Sanctions Unregistered Investment Adviser for Fraudulent: I) Investment Advice, AND II) Filings for PPP Loans

Outside Tips: SEC Sues Trio for Trading on Equifax Breach

Hack Attack: SEC Charges 18 Individuals and Entities with Microcap “Pump and Dump”

“Picking the Winner”: SEC Sanctions Investment Adviser and an Associate for “Rigging” the Game

Investment Esoterica: A Stockless Triptych

Double Jeopardy: SEC and FRB Sanction Bank and its CEO

Delusional Improvement: SEC Proposes Governance Rules for Clearing Agencies

Cutting Corners: SEC Sues Surgical Implant Company for Disclosure AND Accounting Fraud

‘No Exit’: SEC Sanctions Investment Adviser for Impeding University Investors from Departing a Private Fund

Goldman and the Juliet Problem: SEC Sanctions Adviser for Faulty ESG Policies

Only Sell What You Know-II: Selling Variable Interest Structure Products Is a Fraud on the Unsuspecting

“Red Flags in the Mind Set”: SEC Sanctions Three Broker/Dealers for Identity Theft Deficiencies

Fake News, American Style: SEC Sues Company and Executives for Phony “News”

Not Ship Shape: SEC Sues Retired Chief Petty Officer for Fraudulent Offerings to Navy-Related Victims

Capturing the “Bull”: US Attorney and SEC Deal With “Inside” Tipper

Equitable Teaching: SEC Fails Variable Annuity Retirement Plans for Educators

Valuing the Risk: FICC Proposes Rule Change to Protect Against Repo Volatility

Lessons from an Elder Abuse Story with a (Relatively) Happy Ending

“Promise Them Anything, But Give Them” – NOTHING, SEC Sanctions Adviser to Private Funds

Independence Days: SEC Acting Chief Accountant Guides on PE Investment and Consultant Divestiture

Non-Compliant Compliance: SEC Sanctions Chief Compliance Officer

“Pillow Talk”: SEC Sues Greedy New Jersey “Domestic Partner”

Rate the Conflicts: SEC Sanctions Rating Agency and its Principal

Book Cooking Consequences: SEC Sanctions Corporate Executives and Outside Auditors for Accounting Fraud

Armored to the Brink: SEC Finds Security Company’s Confidentiality Agreement Illegal

Libor Continues to Fade Away

Sell Only What You Know: Swiss Bank Negligence is a Fraud on Clients

Impaired Brilliance: SEC and US Attorney Sue Veteran Investor for Insider Trading

The SEC “Special Ops” of Enforcement: Five cases Identified by Analysis and Detection Center

Who Are You? Auditor or Consultant, And Nonetheless Cheating on Exams

Mony a Mickle Maks a Muckle: SEC Charges Foreign Nationals with Two Microcap Frauds

Fingers in the Till: SEC Charges Texas City Administrator with Falsified Financial Statements to Conceal Embezzlement

Stealing From the Weak: SEC Charges Fraudulent Operation of Special Needs Pooled Trusts

Serving the Public? SEC Charges Two Municipalities and Their Leaders with Bond Fraud

Changing the Game: SEC Brings Enforcement Action for Exchanging Annuities

A Fool in Idaho; SEC Sues Idahoans for Insider Trading Scheme

Words Have Meaning: NJ Court Upholds Waiver of Duty of Loyalty in LLC

SEC Brings Enforcement to Tragedy: Asserts Failed ESG Disclosure in Dam Collapse

“Fake News” Brazilian Style

Penny Pest Control: Rollins Inc. Pays $8 Million for Managing Earnings

Failing Grades: School District and Auditor Earn SEC Discipline

A Triptych of Frauds: SEC Brings Enforcement Actions

Maximizing the Fee: Royal Bank of Canada Affiliate Pays $30+ Million for Client Abuse

Piloting SARs for Foreign Bank Affiliates

No Way Out? Real Estate Lending Becomes Riskier

Lower the Gates and Raise the Swing: SEC Proposes Amendments to MMF Rules

Form Does Matter: NJ Professional Corporation is Different from its Principals

Uniform Independence: SEC Sanctions Accountants and Lawyers

“Call the Plumber”: Bank for International Settlement AND IOSCO Call for Reforms

Tweeting in the Night: Judgment Entered Against ARCS Stock Tout

Which Side Are You On? Municipal Broker/Dealer Takes Both Sides

Streaming Data: SEC Charges Netflix Trading Ring

Who Will Watch the Watchmen? Audit Shortcomings

Collateral Damage: SEC Sanctions “Varsity Blues” Parent

Improving the Plumbing: The Fed Responds to the Group of 30 and Creates Two Standing Repo Facilities

Insider Tips: And That IS “Bull”

“C.T.A.,” NOT “Chicago”

Fixing FICC: Agency Proposes Rule Changes to Encourage More Repo Clearing

“Margin, I Have to Have More Margin:” The National Securities Clearing Corporation Proposes to Increase the Minimum Required Fund Deposit

Data Integrity: The SEC Sanctions S & P Dow Jones Indices LLC

Too Much Bother: Broker/Dealer Affiliate of An Insurer Catering to Retirement Plans

Raising the Bar: SEC to Propose Increased Thresholds for Performance-Based Fees

Friends and Family Fraud: LLC Does It

The Dog Ate My Financials: Dissembling Filers Sanctioned by the SEC

LIBOR Fading Away: What Lenders and Borrowers Should Know

Tightening the Reins: SEC Approves Proposed Rule Change to Clearing Agency Investment Policy

“I Robot:” The SEC Evaluates the First Law of Robotics

What’s in a Name? The SEC Warns Against Confusion in ESG Investments

Red Flags and SARs: The SEC Warns Broker/Dealers on AML

Oops: NASDAQ Seeks to Correct a 2009 Error Re: ADR Listing Requirements

Who Are You and How Much Are You Paid? MSRB Proposes Regulation of Solicitor Municipal Advisors

Under the Cover of Darkness: Insider Trading and the Dark Web

Beware the Ides of March: SEC Requests Comments on Climate Disclosure

Swiss Miss: The Fed, Basel III, and SLR

Are You Covered? The Exposure of D’s and O’s for Diverse Reasons

SEC Stops the Game: Suspending Trading After “Questionable Trading and Social Media Activity”

Being Held Accountable: The ‘Education’ of KPMG at the College of New Rochelle

‘X-Rated’: SEC Sues Morningstar

‘Bucking the Break’: SEC Requests Comments on MMF Reforms

Taking a Bath: Will Bed Bath & Beyond Drown in the GameStop Surge?

Inciting to Rupture: Keith Gill and the GameStop Surge

Tracking Treasury Trading: The Fed to Collect the TRACEs

Rupture Rapture: Should the GameStop?

Speaking with Divided Minds: The SEC “Modernizes” Investment Adviser Advertising

New Law Requires Federal Registration and Ownership Disclosure for LLCs and Corporations

Taming the Elephants: SEC Jumbo Trader Risk Alert

In Defense of the Realm: The NDAA, Money Laundering, and Terrorist Financing

Tacking When Floating and Other Proposed Amendments to SEC Rule 144

Felling Goliaths: ICE, Prudential, and the SEC Slingshot

Letting Qualified Experts Expand the Pink to Avoid the Grey: Proposed Conditional Waiver to SEC Rule 15c2-11

Direct Listing on the New York Stock Exchange: “Undertaking” the Underwriter REDUX

When the CCO Is Not Compliant: Failure To Have Independent Testing of Broker/Dealer AML Compliance

Meeting Specified Standards: the SEC’s OCIE Assesses Compliance

LIBOR Is Fading Away; But, Perhaps, Not as Quickly as Thought

Treasury Transparency: Enhanced Regulations for Trading in Government Securities

A New Jersey LLC Is Really a General Partner

Credential Stuffing: Cyber Intrusions Into Client Accounts of Broker/Dealers and Investment Advisors

LIBOR Is Fading Away

Why FinTech Needs Boston Blackie

The European Stock Markets: Still at Sixes and Sevens

Keeping Securities Disclosures in the Pink: Amendments to SEC Rule 15c2-11

Inside Looking Out: Enforcing the Law Against a Market Designer

“Is You Is or Is You Ain’t:” Membership in an LLC

“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore:” SEC Enforcement Action Against a Trust Company With Trusts

Commerce, Culture, and Compliance

Taxing Disclosures: Municipal Securities Issuers and COVID-19

What if the Advice Is Suspect? Municipal Securities Advisor Registration and Dereliction

SEC Focus on Municipal Securities: Disclosure and Enforcement – The Peculiar Structure of the Municipal Securities Disclosure Regime

Bretton Woods, Bank Herstatt, and FedNow: The Origins of the International Payment System

‘Accredited Investor’: Regulatory Design, the Revised Definition, and the Unfinished Result

When the Tank Is Empty: Auditing in the Time of COVID-19

SEC Seeks to Increase the Security of the Data on the Consolidated Audit Trail National Market System

Direct Listing on the New York Stock Exchange: “Undertaking” Underwriting

Are You Ready? Preparing Your Business for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Audit

Corporations and LLCs: New Federal Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Requires Reporting to FinCEN

SOFR and the Shutdown of Overnight Repos: What Happens If There Is Nothing to Measure?

SEC Stresses Attention to LIBOR Transition in Joint Statement

LIBOR to SOFR: The New Adjustable Rate Mortgage

Elder Financial Abuse: The Senior Safe Act

Oh How Will We Measure When the Ruler is Uncertain: More Observations on the LIBOR Saga

Research Reports by Broker/Dealers – FINRA Catches Up

General Partnership Interests Are Securities – Sometimes: The 5th Circuit Revisits Williamson

“Measure for Measure:” LIBOR, SOFR, and the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index

FASB Refuses to Let Regional Banks Avoid Taking Earlier Loss Reserves

Broker/Dealer Research Reports – Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Business Development Companies

The Expanding Scope of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

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Publications

  • “Regulation and the Investment Advisor,” Financial Planning Association of New York, November 9, 2011
  • “LLC or Inc.? Entity Selection for a Small to Medium Sized Business,” National Business Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, October 25, 2010

Peter D. Hutcheon has earned the Martindale-Hubbell 2023 AV Preeminent Attorney Rating status. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. 

Peter D. Hutcheon has earned the Martindale-Hubbell 2022 AV Preeminent Attorney – Judicial Edition status. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Peter D. Hutcheon has been recognized in the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for his high-caliber work in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, and Securities Regulation.

Peter D. Hutcheon has earned the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Attorney status. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Peter D Hutcheon Martindale-Hubbell 2021 Peer Review Rating AV Preeminent

Peter D. Hutcheon has earned the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® status. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.Best Lawyers

Peter D. Hutcheon was selected to The Best Lawyers in America®

  • Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law, 2006-2023
  • Securities Regulation, 2011-2023

A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.Peter D. Hutcheon was selected to the 2013 Super Lawyers list. The Super Lawyers List is issued by Thompson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

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Peter D. Hutcheon was selected to the 2012 Best Lawyers® Lawyer of The Year list. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

2005 Martin l. Lubaroff Award.

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