Borden Consulting welcomes Peter Harrington, long-time securites expert to team

Borden Consulting Group announces that industry expert Peter Harrington has joined the firm as Senior Counsel.  In his role, he will continue to advise clients on escheat matters, drawing from his extensive background in securities regulation and litigation.

Harrington is a veteran of the securities industry, having spent the last 24 years with Computershare and its predecessors. In his role, Harrington supported the Unclaimed Property and Tax teams while working with outside counsel on indemnity claims and transfer agent related litigation.  Harrington also worked on a number of significant cases related to shareholder claims resulting from state liquidation of escheated shares.

Prior to that, Harrington spent 23 years at Boston-based litigation firm Cosgrove, Eisenberg and Kiley. There Harrington handled trial and appellate litigation in state and federal courts as well as tax, probate and corporate matters.  He served as an arbitrator for the New York Stock Exchange, NASD/FINRA, the American Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and the American Arbitration Association.  He represented claimants in arbitration proceedings as well as served as a mediator in the Massachusetts trial courts.

He began his career in government service, enjoying progressively increased responsibility.  An expert in Public Records, Harrington served as Director of the Corporations Division for the Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  He was the Director of the Massachusetts Securities Division from 1984 to 1987.  During that time, he continued his studies in Securities Regulation with Professor Louis Loss at Harvard Law School. He also served on Mass. Continuing Legal Education panels on Securities Regulation, including Securities Arbitration.  He is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the First Circuit, the United States Tax Court and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Harrington earned an LLM in Taxation from Boston University Law School.  He is a graduate of Colby College, Suffolk University Law School and the Boston Latin School.  While at Boston Latin, Harrington worked in Boston’s Chinatown, where he began to train in martial arts with Master Chow Lum.  He continues to study martial arts to this day, having obtained a Fifth Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.