JEFF SCHWARTZ University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law 332 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT (801)

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1 JEFF SCHWARTZ University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law 332 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT (801) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT Position Associate Professor of Law 2012 Present Courses Business Organizations; Corporate Finance; Transactional LawMeet Competition Team (faculty advisor) California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA Positions Associate Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Law Teaching Fellow, Aspiring Legal Scholars Program Courses Contracts I; Contracts II; Business Organizations; Business Entity Finance; Entertainment Law Chapman University School of Law, Orange, CA Position Adjunct Professor of Law Course Agency, Partnerships & Limited Liability Companies EDUCATION University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) J.D., May 2002 Honors Activities Order of the Coif; Boalt Hall Fellowship Berkeley Journal of International Law; Boalt Hall Teaching Fellow University of California at Los Angeles (Honors Collegium) B.A., summa cum laude, Political Science, June 1999 Honors Phi Beta Kappa; Highest Honors in Political Science Greenfield Memorial Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Political Science Page 1 of 6

2 ARTICLES The Law and Economics of Scaled Equity Market Regulation (forthcoming). The Twilight of Equity Liquidity, 34CARDOZO L. REV. 531 (2012). Reprinted in 45 SECURITIES L. REV. 81 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., 2013) (a yearly anthology of leading works in securities law). Selected for reprinting in THE CORPORATE PRACTICE COMMENTATOR (Robert B. Thompson ed.) (a periodical of leading works in corporate and securities law). Served as the basis of a reform proposal by the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. Rethinking 401(k)s, 49HARVARD J. ON LEGIS. 53 (2012). Fairness, Utility, and Market Risk, 89 OREGON L. REV. 175 (2010). Reconceptualizing Investment Management Regulation, 16GEORGE MASON L. REV. 521 (2009). Reprinted in 42 SECURITIES L. REV. 574 (Donald C. Langevoort ed., 2010). Workplace Rights and Illegal Immigration: How Implied Repeal Analysis Cuts Through the Haze of Hoffman Plastic, its Predecessors and its Progeny, 29 BERKELEY J. EMP.&LAB.L.1 (2008) (with Nhan T. Vu). Reprinted in 29 IMMIGRATION &NATIONALITY L. REV. 813 (Gabriel J. Chin ed., 2009) (a yearly anthology of seminal law review articles in immigration, nationality and citizenship law ). Mutual Fund Conflicts of Interest in the Wake of the Short-Term Trading Scandals: Encouraging Structural Change Through Shareholder Choice, 2 N.Y.U. J.L. & BUS. 91 (2005). Good Faith in Partner Expulsions: Application of a Contract Law Paradigm, 9CHAPMAN L. REV. 1 (2005). SHORTER WORKS The Case for a Junior Equity Market, THE CLS BLUE SKY BLOG,COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL S BLOG ON CORPORATIONS AND THE CAPITAL MARKETS (May 15, 2013). Page 2 of 6

3 The Crystallization of Hedge-Fund Regulation, 2 HARVARD BUS.L.REV.ONLINE 73 (2011). Series of guest blog posts on the THE CONGLOMERATE, November PRESENTATIONS,CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS Presenter/Panelist, An Assessment of the IPO On-Ramp, 2013 Utah Securities and Investment Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June Presenter/Panelist, The Law and Economics of Scaled Equity Market Regulation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, May Presenter, The Law and Economics of Scaled Equity Market Regulation, Junior Faculty Exchange Workshop, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, Nevada, April Moderator, Assessing the Legislative and Regulatory Answers to Economies in Crisis, Rolapp Scholar Symposium, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, March Co-organizer, Co-moderator, Presenter/Panelist, Hot Topic Program Jobs, the JOBS Act, and the Future of Small Business Finance and the U.S. Equity Markets, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January Presenter, The Twilight of Equity Liquidity, Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, September Presenter, Improving Market Conditions for Small and Emerging Companies after the JOBS Act: Scaled Disclosure and Beyond, Meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies, San Francisco, California, September Panelist, The Relationship Between Business and Regulation, Federalist Society Speaker Series, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, September Presenter, The Twilight of Equity Liquidity, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida, July Presenter/Panelist, The Twilight of Equity Liquidity, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, June Presenter, The Twilight of Equity Liquidity, ASU Legal Scholars Conference, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona, March Page 3 of 6

4 Presenter/Panelist, Dodd-Frank and the Financial Collapse, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January Presenter/Panelist, Corporate Governance and the Financial Collapse, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January Presenter, Rethinking 401(k)s, Annual Meeting of the Society of Socio-Economists, Washington, DC, January Discussant, Mutual-Fund Regulation and Governance, Corporate Governance Seminar, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California, October Presenter, Shadow Markets and the Structure of Securities Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina, July Discussant, Dodd-Frank One Year Later, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina, July Presenter/Panelist, Rethinking 401(k)s, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, June Presenter, Rethinking 401(k)s, Southwest/West Junior Law Faculty Workshop, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona, March Presenter, Jones v. Harris Associates, SCOTUS Wrap-up, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, September, Presenter/Panelist, Fairness, Utility, and Market Risk, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May Moderator, Negotiating the Licensing Agreement, Expanding into Global Markets Through Transborder Licensing, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, April Presenter, Fairness, Utility, and Market Risk, Southwest/West Junior Law Faculty Workshop, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona, March Presenter/Panelist, Investor Sophistication and the SEC, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, May Presenter, Reconceptualizing Investment Management Regulation, Southern California Junior Law Faculty Workshop, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, October Page 4 of 6

5 Presenter/Panelist, Reconceptualizing Investment Management Regulation, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, May Presenter, Workplace Rights and Illegal Immigration: How Implied Repeal Analysis Cuts Through the Haze of Hoffman Plastic, its Predecessors and its Progeny, Work, Welfare and Justice Seminar, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California, January PRACTICE EXPERIENCE Universal Music Group, Los Angeles, CA General Counsel (Fontana Distribution) Head attorney for Fontana Distribution (gross revenues $80 million). Served as the company s single point of contact for all legal issues that arose in connection with its business (the sale and distribution of albums created by independent record labels). Negotiated and drafted the agreements that governed Fontana Distribution s relationships with its record-label clients. Corporate Counsel Managed corporate governance. Advised on corporate-law issues and legal compliance. Worked with outside counsel on artist joint ventures and major transactions. Coordinated and drafted documentation in connection with U.S. and international corporate restructurings. Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA Corporate Associate Drafted and negotiated agreements and supporting documents in connection with stock and asset sales, mergers, and corporate financings. Advised clients regarding fiduciary duties, shareholder voting rights, and securities-law compliance. Prepared public company disclosure documents and filed them with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Litigated trademark infringement claim (pro bono). Summer Associate 2001 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA Summer Associate 2000 ACADEMIC SERVICE S.J. Quinney College of Law Curriculum Committee (2012 Present); Admissions Committee (2012 Present) Page 5 of 6

6 University of Utah Information Technology Council (2012 Present) California Western School of Law Faculty Development Committee ( ) (Co-chair, ); Advisor, Business Law Society ( ); Law-School Representative, Consortium for Innovative Legal Education (CILE) ( ); Advisor, Business Law and Practice Area of Concentration ( ); Mentor, Adjunct Faculty ( ); Faculty Appointments Committee ( ) OTHER INFORMATION Steering Committee Member, UCSD Economics Roundtable ( ). Member of the State Bar of California. From , served as a member of the Board of Directors of Hospice of Pasadena, Inc., a nonprofit organization serving the Los Angeles area. Page 6 of 6