Business Law Program

Peter Bonanno

Peter V. Bonanno (’93)

Peter Bonanno serves as General Counsel for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which he joined in 2019.  In this capacity, Mr. Bonanno leads a global team of attorneys and other professionals dedicated to advising and supporting J.P. Morgan Asset Management on a broad range of legal, regulatory, and transactional matters.  He also serves as a member of the firm’s Asset Management Operating Committee.

Mr. Bonanno previously served as U.S. General Counsel (2012-2019) and Global General Counsel (2016-2019) for Allianz Global Investors.  Before that, he worked at Goldman Sachs for 13 years, most recently as a managing director and associate general counsel for Goldman Sachs Asset Management L.P. (GSAM), and as general counsel for GSAM’s US mutual fund complex. 

Before moving in-house, Mr. Bonanno was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Dechert LLP, worked as an attorney-adviser at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and served as a law clerk to the Hon. John A. Terry of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. 

He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law.