Profile: Peter Q Bassett

Commercial Litigation

Biography: Commercial Litigation

Peter Bassett, a partner in Alston & Bird's securities litigation group, focuses his practice on litigation and trial work covering a broad spectrum of securities (including '33 Act and '34 Act, SEC investigations and proceedings), D&O, commercial and class action litigation. He is a member of the AIG National Union Panel counsel for the defence of securities class actions and D&O claims.

He is a frequent author and speaker on topics relating to securities claims, class actions, D&O insurance and commercial litigation.

Peter is the past leader of the securities litigation group and former chair of the firm's partners' committee and co-coordinator of Alston & Bird's litigation groups.

He received his JD degree, with highest honours, from George Washington University (1975), where he received the Order of the Coif and US Law Week Award, and he received his AB degree from Princeton University (1971). He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Bar Association.

Peter has represented Fortune 100 telecommunications, banking, textile, paper, and consumer products companies in securities, ERISA, and products class and derivative litigation, and also counselled and appeared for numerous middle market companies and individual directors and officers in SEC-related proceedings.