Biography

Richard H. Walker is General Counsel of Deutsche Bank AG. From 1998-2001, he was Director of the Division of Enforcement of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.  For over two years prior to his appointment to that position, Mr. Walker served as the Commission’s General Counsel. Prior to his appointment as General Counsel, Mr. Walker was the Regional Director of the Commission’s Northeast Regional Office from 1991 through 1995.

Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Walker spent fifteen years in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he was a litigation partner specializing in corporate, securities, and commercial litigation. From 1975 to 1976, Mr. Walker served as law clerk to the Hon. Collins J. Seitz, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Mr. Walker is a 1972 graduate of Trinity College.  In 1975, he was awarded his JD degree, by Temple Law School.
 

Associated Items

Richard H. Walker is associated with the following items:

  Web Segment

• What's on the Minds of General Counsels Today? from the web program Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual)
  
• Persistent Governance Issues from the web program Corporate Governance 2010
  

  CHB Chapters

• Significant Recent SEC Enforcement Matters Involving Investment Banks from the book Securities Regulation Institute (40th Annual)
  
• Implications of the Obama White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform from the book Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual)
  
• Reforming Financial Market Regulation and Supervision--US and EU Approaches from the book Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual)
  

  MP3 Audio

• Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual): What's on the Minds of General Counsels Today?
  
• Corporate Governance 2010: Persistent Governance Issues