Professor J.W. Verret, JD, CPA/CFF, CFE, CVA, CCFI teaches accounting and finance, securities law, M&A, corporate law and banking law at the George Mason University Law School. He is a licensed CPA in the state of Virginia, is licensed in financial forensics by the AICPA, is a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Valuation Analyst and is a Certified Cryptocurrency Forensic Investigator. He holds a certificate from the Wharton School of Business in the Economics of Blockchain.  He has been a Visiting Professor at the Stanford Law School.

He served on the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he advised the SEC on matters of investor protection. He serves on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Committee, which advises on the development of Generally Accepted Accounting Standards (GAAP). He helped the FASAC and FASB in the development of new valuation and reporting rules for crypto assets.

He serves as faculty liaison to the American College of Business Court Judges.  He previously worked as the Chief Economist at the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.

Professor Verret has served as the Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors of a leading credit rating agency and proxy advisory firm, where he was charged with implementing a compliance reform program. 

He is a member of the board of directors of the Zcash Foundation, the Foundation that has developed the zero-knowledge-proof cryptography that stands at the heart of many cryptocurrency protocols including Ethereum.

He holds a Bachelors degree in Financial Accounting, a Masters in Economic Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. from the Harvard Law School.  He also clerked for the Delaware Court of Chancery.

He has served as an expert in numerous corporate and securities litigation and arbitration matters, two representative engagements include:  New Jersey v. Sprint, 758 F.Supp.2d 1186 (2010) and Landsdowne v. OpenBand, 713 F.3d 187 (2013). He was named as an expert in forensic accounting and financial forensics in US v. Sterlingov, a Bitcoin money laundering case involving over $300 million in allegedly laundered drug proceeds.

He can assist litigants with crytpocurrency forensics and valuation, damages calculations, forensic accounting and valuation, matters of corporate and M&A contract interpretation, materiality determinations in securities class actions, valuation in appraisal actions and business litigation, review of settlement agreements for determinations of investor benefit and other questions at the intersection of business and corporate law and accounting/finance.

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