Peter's expertise includes corporate finance, securities law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, private equity / hedge fund / family office formation and management and general compliance for public / private companies and not-for-profit entities.Currently he is the Chief Legal Officer / General Counsel of Oak Harbor Capital, LLC, which is one of the largest privately owned aggregator / service providers to the defaulted consumer debt industry in the US. Prior to joining Oak Harbor Capital, he was a partner at K&L Gates LLP, where he served as Oak Harbor's outside legal counsel. Prior to commencing his legal career, Peter was a lending officer at Chase Manhattan Bank where he completed the Chase Credit Training Program with distinction. He also served as the Assistant to the Director of Labor Relations at Citibank, N.A. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and earned his law degree at Fordham Law School where he was the Articles Editor of the Fordham International Law Journal. Peter was very involved in the early development of the secondary market for distressed debt and helped pioneer some of the original legal documentation used in the trading of distressed debt when the industry was in its nascent stage.