Chief Legal Officer
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley announced that Gary G. Lynch has been named chief legal officer and a member of the firm’s management committee. Lynch had been executive vice president of Credit Suisse First Boston, which he joined as global general counsel in October 2001.
From 1985 to 1989, Lynch served as director of the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In that capacity, he directed the activities of a nationwide staff of 700 employees responsible for enforcing federal securities laws. In his 13 years with the SEC, Lynch participated in many of its most important actions and initiatives in the areas of corporate disclosure, tender offers and proxy contests, and insider trading. After leaving the SEC, Lynch became a partner at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Lynch graduated from Syracuse University in 1972, Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his law degree from Duke University School of Law in 1975. A frequent lecturer on a wide variety of subjects relating to the federal securities laws, Lynch regularly appears on the faculty of continuing legal education programs.