Mark G. Peters
Mark Peters is the co-founder of Peters Brovner LLP, a NYC-based boutique litigation firm focusing on civil litigation, internal investigations and regulatory matters.
Mark fights to hold City, State and federal government and large institutions to account. To this end, he has counseled a government agency under attack from the federal government, represented nonprofit and for-profit entities wrongfully not being paid by the City and fought for victims of sexual assault recovering millions of dollars on their behalf.
Mark represents institutional and individual clients in a wide range of investigations, regulatory matters and litigations. Clients look to him for strategic advice on how to best manage a diverse array of matters in public and private entities of every type, and in situations where the entities’ reputation and dollars are at risk.
Prior to co-founding Peters Brovner, Mark served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) from 2014 to 2018. While in this role, he supervised the over 500-person law enforcement agency responsible for investigating corruption, waste, fraud and abuse by city agencies, city workers and private entities that do business with the city.
Upon departure from DOI, the New York Times Editorial Board wrote “the City has benefited from Mr. Peters’s tenure.” Mark previously served as CBS Channel 2’s Urban Affairs Expert.
Before his time as Commissioner of DOI, Mark was a partner at an international law firm, Edwards Wildman Palmer from 2010 to 2014. He was also tasked with reviewing and reforming the New York Liquidation Bureaus’ agency practices as the Special Deputy Superintendent in Charge from 2007 to 2009. From 1999 to 2004, Mark worked in the New York State Attorney General’s Office as Chief of the Public Integrity Unit and Deputy Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau.
Mark graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, J.D., magna cum laude and received his B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University.