Zachary Shapiro

Zachary Shapiro

Business / Contracts, Business Formation, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor - Plaintiff, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities, Startups (Transactional)

Brooklyn, New York

Personal Introduction

Zack Shapiro is the Managing Partner at Rains and leads the law practice. Previously, he was co-founder and general counsel of BZR, a startup backed by Founders Fund, Greycroft, and Abstract Ventures. Zack is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, and started his legal career clerking in the federal courts for the S.D.N.Y. and the 2nd Circuit, and at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Zack serves in various advisory roles in the crypto industry, including as a member of the Pleb Lab Accelerator advisory board, and as a Legal Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute.

Practice Composition

Transactional

Education

Yale Law School
Yale Law School JD

Practice Summary

Response Time

1 day

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Bar Admissions

New York