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Richard Sharp is a partner in the Litigation Department of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP. He joined the firm in 2003 as a partner, and was formerly a name partner in the firm of Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp.
Mr. Sharp is one of the leading practitioners in representing major U.S. and foreign broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investment partnerships in connection with a broad range of regulatory issues, SEC and self-regulatory organization enforcement investigations and proceedings, and corporate transactions. He is a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad on issues relating to the regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers, the structure and operation of the securities markets, evolving concepts of best execution and supervision, and the international trading of securities. He is also author of dozens of publications in these fields. During more than 25 years in private practice, Mr. Sharp has represented almost all of the major securities firms in the United States and many foreign broker-dealers, with a particular focus on trading issues under the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers and New York Stock Exchange.
From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Sharp served as Head of the Office of Trading Practices and Assistant Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation. He previously served as Branch Chief and Trial Attorney in the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Mr. Sharp is a member of the Corporate Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Sharp received his B.A. degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 1970. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. Mr. Sharp also studied international law at the Hague Academy of International Law and Oxford University. | 