David Phelan is executive vice president and General Counsel of State Street. He leads a global legal team at State Street made up of more than 100 experts across all aspects of the institutional investor industry.
Mr. Phelan joins State Street from the Boston office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he was a senior partner for more than a decade and practiced corporate law with a special focus on the representation, domestically and internationally, of investment advisers, investment companies, and other collective investment vehicles. He has significant corporate and securities law experience representing public companies, pooled investment vehicles, investment advisers and other issuers on a wide array of issues including public reporting, capital raising, as well as regulatory and compliance matters.
Mr. Phelan is a member of the New York and Massachusetts Bar Associations. He received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Tulane University Law School, where he was an editor of the Tulane Law Review. He received a B.A. degree from Hamilton College, and an M.A. degree from Brown University. |