Verity Van

Associate at Sidley Austin, LLP in New York City
Ms. Van Tassel Richards is an associate at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP. She focuses her practice on representing digital asset trading platforms, blockchain technology companies, broker-dealers, financial services firms and cryptocurrency funds. She advises technology companies on blockchain token offerings, including so-called ICOs. She also counsels financial institutions and digital asset exchanges with day-to-day securities issues, private placement agent requirements, custody rule requirements, cross-border regulatory issues, and FINRA and SEC regulatory inquiries. Ms. Van Tassel Richards works with transactional lawyers on structuring deals involving financial services and technology companies, digital asset exchanges and blockchain tokens. She advises blockchain entrepreneurs in the formation of nonprofit organizations and benefit corporations. She is an adjunct professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she teaches The Law of Nonprofit Organizations. She frequently speaks and writes on various topics in FinTech, distributed ledger technology and blockchain tokens.