Peter Trombly

Peter Trombly is an associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice.

Peter’s practice focuses on appellate litigation and dispositive motions in federal and state courts. Peter has drafted over a hundred briefs, including in nine cases before the US Supreme Court, over thirty appeals before other federal and state appellate courts, and numerous matters before federal and state trial courts. He has also argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Seventh Circuit, and the New York Appellate Division.

Peter has litigated cases involving a wide range of legal issues, including securities regulation, arbitration, business and contract disputes, and constitutional law. 

Peter has significant experience in cases involving federal securities laws. He has drafted briefs before trial and appellate courts in cases alleging securities fraud based on misrepresentations and omissions, seeking disgorgement of short-swing trading profits, and attempting to rescind transactions in alleged unregistered securities. Peter frequently assists with strategic analysis and briefing on novel legal issues that arise in cases addressing the interaction between federal securities laws and digital assets.

He also has extensive experience practicing before New York courts. He has drafted briefs in four Second Circuit appeals and drafted dispositive and other pre-trial motions in cases before the Southern District of New York. Peter has also drafted briefs in cases at every level of the New York state judiciary, including in six cases before the New York Appellate Division.

Prior to joining Latham, Peter served as a law clerk for Senior Judge T. S. Ellis, III, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Judge William J. Kayatta, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Peter received his JD from The University of Chicago Law School, graduating with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Peter served as a comments editor for The University of Chicago Law Review and was named a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar.