After years of experience working with major firms and industry leaders around the world, I founded Veritas Global in 2017.

My goal is to bring my unique blend of legal, technological, financial, cultural, and business knowledge to organizations and individuals who want to shake up legacy industries with their unique innovations—and change the world for the better in the process.

Corey Harris

Corey Harris, J.D.,
M.B.A., L.L.M

As founder and managing partner of Veritas Global Law PLLC, Corey Harris brings with him over a decade of applied knowledge and experience in the areas of Corporate and Securities Law, as well as in Financial Services Technology. He has worked extensively as a strategic advisor for high-level organizations that are at the forefront of technology and innovation, wealth management, digital assets, and cryptocurrencies throughout the world.

Mr. Harris’ experience as Advisor and former General Counsel to a Fintech payment company with subsidiaries across Asia and in the United States. Additionally, Mr. Harris has served as general counsel to a number of charitable and investment related Foundations. Finally, Mr. Harris began his career with prestigious firms like Proskauer Rose LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP that allow him to work across diverse practice areas, including  Financial Services, Technology and SaaS, Private Investment Funds, Banking (broker-dealer, investment banking, securities lending), Regulatory Compliance, Corporate Governance, Biotechnology, and Mergers and Acquisitions, particularly in cross-border transactions.

PUBLICATIONS & APPEARANCES

  • “The Past as Prologue: Shelby County v. Holder and the Risks Ahead,” UC Berkeley School of Law Journal of African-American Law & Policy and the Touro Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, 2015
  • “The Dos and Don’ts of an SEC Examination,” Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 2015
  • “The Transparency Bandwagon,” eSeclending Quarterly Update, June 2012
  • “SEC Proposed Rule 206(4)-(5) and Proposed Amendments to Rules 204-2 and 206(4)-3 Under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,” National Venture Capital Association, June 2010
  • “Oppression through Violence: The Case of Colombia – An Expansion of The Fetish Object,” The North Carolina Central Law Journal 29 N.C. Cent. L.J. 98, 2006
  • Speaker: ICO4 Impact Virtual Summit, 2018
  • Presenter: “The Scale of the Harm is Unprecedented: A Bellsian Analysis of the Financial Crisis,” unpublished paper presented at Western New England University School of Law, 2012
  • Panelist: Mutual Fund Round Table, Boston University School of Law, 2010

Education

  • University of Oxford Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK
    • Oxford Chicago Valuation Program, June 2019
  • The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA
    • Master of Laws, May 2015
  • Boston College Law School, Newton, MA
    • Juris Doctor, May 2008
  • Boston College Carroll School of Management, Chestnut Hill, MA
    • Master of Business Administration, May 2008
  • Hampton University, Hampton, VA
    • Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, May 2004

LANGUAGE STUDIES

  • Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
    • The Japanese Language School, 2010
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
    • The Spanish Language School, 2001

BAR MEMBERSHIPS

  • State Bar of Massachusetts
  • State Bar of Virginia
  • The District of Columbia Bar

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Phone: (804) 250-3249

Email: corey@vglawfirm.com

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