Peter M. Friedman
Attorney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY
Peter M. Friedman is currently a member of the New York Bar and an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York and is a member of the firm’s financial restructuring group. Prior to joining Akin Gump in 2009, Mr. Friedman was a Yale-China Teaching Fellow at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China for the 2008-09 academic year, where he taught U.S. politics and culture classes. While in China, Mr. Friedman regularly blogged about his experiences and observations living and working in the country. His blog can be found at www.chiandtr.com. From 2006 through 2008, he worked as a bankruptcy and mergers and acquisitions associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP in New York. Before joining the legal profession, Mr. Friedman was an investment banking analyst at Citigroup Salomon Smith Barney in Hong Kong specializing in technology companies throughout Asia, including those in the Greater China region.
Mr. Friedman submitted an article that was selected as a winning entrant by the East Asia Forum, which is supported by the Australian National University, and will be published in a July 2010 issue of the East Asia Forum Quarterly. He was also invited to attend and present his article, titled, Plagiarism and China’s Future Economic Development, at a Roundtable of Emerging Scholars of Asia in July 2010.
Mr. Friedman received his B.A. with distinction in ethics, politics and economics from Yale University in 2000, and his J.D. in 2006 from Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, in which he also had a note published that was titled, Risky Business: Can Faulty Country Risk Factors in the Prospectuses of U.S. Listed Chinese Companies Raise Violations of U.S. Securities Law?.