Resume

• 2004

  Masters in Public Policy

  Specialization in Economic and Financial Regulatory Policy

  Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

• 2002

  J.D.

  Law

  Harvard Law School

• 1998

  B.S.

  Financial Accounting

  Louisiana State University

• Financial Accounting

  Legal Advice

  Administrative Law

  Legal Research

  Financial Services

  Securities

  Public Policy

  Mergers & Acquisitions

  Corporate Governance

  Securities Regulation

  Litigation

  Policy Analysis

  Corporate Law

  Civil Litigation

  Economics

  Securities Law

  Banking

  Regulatory Policy

  Banking and Financial Regulatory Policy

  Commercial Litigation

  Treasury Inc.: How the Bailout Reshapes Corporate Theory and Practice

  Explores how the the Treasury Department's decision to take equity stakes in recipients of the 2008 TARP bailout distorted the legal and economic incentives of those companies.

  Treasury Inc.: How the Bailout Reshapes Corporate Theory and Practice

  Argues that the SEC's consideration of a rule to require companies to disclose political expenditures will threaten the free speech rights afforded to corporations by the first amendment to the US Constitution.

  The SEC Ponders Circumventing Citizens United

  Performs an econometric stock price event study of the effect of the proxy access rule

  the first rule adopted by the SEC pursuant to Dodd-Frank

  which was later overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit for insufficient economic analysis. This paper determines that for a subset of firms the rule caused roughly $347 million in damage to shareholder value

  and potentially billions more to shareholders in other companies.

  Does Shareholder Proxy Access Damage Share Value in Small Publicly Traded Companies?

  J.W.

  Verret

  Stanford Law School

  Skadden

  Arps

  Slate

  Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

  Mercatus Center

  Egan-Jones Ratings Co./ Egan-Jones Proxy Services

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  George Mason University

  Veritas Financial Analytics LLC

  Hoover Institution

  US House Committee on Financial Services

  Stanford University

  Directed a study on economic analysis of securities regulation

  which included finding innovative methods to make the Securities Exchange Commission's rule-making process more efficient.

  Fellow

  Hoover Institution

  Serve on an Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission which recommends policy changes to the Chairman and the Commissioners to facilitate opportunities for small and emerging companies to raise financial capital.

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  George Mason University

  Arlington

  VA

  Teaching Corporation Law

  Banking Law

  Securities Law

  Financial Regulation and Law and Accounting.

  Associate Professor of Law

  Washington DC

  I provide expert witness consultation in securities and corporate litigation and strategic consulting services to financial services firms. See www.veritasanalyticsllc.com.\n\nA few representative expert witness engagements include:\nNew Jersey v. Sprint

  758 F.Supp.2d 1186 (2010)\nLandsdowne v. OpenBand

  713 F.3d 187 (2013)

  Consultant

  Veritas Financial Analytics LLC

  Arlington

  VA

  Co-author econometric work in cost-benefit analysis of securities and corporate law

  brief congressional staff and SEC staff

  testify before congressional committees

  and consult with the Government Accountability Office and the Treasury Department on matters of corporate governance

  securities law and financial regulation. A collection of testimonies and appearances available at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/jwverret and other work available at http://mercatus.org/j-w-verret.

  Senior Scholar

  Mercatus Center

  Washington

  DC

  Worked in the Securities Litigation and Enforcement practice group.

  Associate

  Skadden

  Arps

  Slate

  Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

  washington

  dc

  Advise the Committee on monetary policy and financial regulation. Serve as staff lead for the Committee's Federal Reserve Centennial Oversight Project. Develop innovative approaches to economic cost-benefit analysis in financial regulation.

  Chief Economist

  US House Committee on Financial Services

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  I was appointed by the SEC Chairman to serve on the Securities and Exchange Commission's Investor Advisory Committee

  where I represent the interests of investors in making recommendations to the SEC Chairman and Commissioners.

  Advisory Committee Member

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  Taught a course on the law and economics of banking

  securities and commodities regulation.

  Stanford Law School

  Egan-Jones Ratings Co./ Egan-Jones Proxy Services

  Haverford

  PA

  Served a one year term as the interim independent Chairman of the Board of Directors of a leading corporate bond credit rating and proxy advisory company to lead a compliance review of firm operations. Reviewed corporate bond credit rating methodologies and oversaw firm compliance programs.

  Chairman Of The Board