SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/ GENERAL COUNSEL

Jeff Gewirtz joined the Nets in May 2007 as senior vice president and general counsel. Gewirtz’ responsibilities include negotiating and executing all agreements as they relate to joint venture alliances, licensing, broadcasting, marketing, sponsorships, and other team-related transactions, as well as overseeing all other general legal affairs of the franchise and its future relocation to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Gewirtz is also responsible for the team’s compliance with all NBA rules and regulations.

Prior to the Nets, Gewirtz, 39, served as the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) general counsel and chief legal and government affairs officer where he oversaw all USOC legal matters, as well as the USOC’s government relations activities with Congress and federal government agencies.

Before he joined the USOC, Gewirtz was counsel - sports & entertainment transactions, marketing and media in The Coca-Cola Company’s Corporate Legal Division. Prior to that, Gewirtz was director of legal affairs for IOC Marketing and Television Services SA, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was a primary negotiator of global Olympic sponsorship alliances for the International Olympic Committee and for the Salt Lake and Athens Olympic Organizing Committee, respectively. He has also served as general counsel for the LPGA Tour and has worked in-house with the WTA Tour.

Gewirtz was formerly on the faculty of Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School, serving as an adjunct professor of sports law at both schools. He is currently Chair of the Sports Division within the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and he sits on the Board of Directors of both the National Sports Law Institute and the Sports Lawyers Association. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research.

A native of Baldwin Harbor, NY, Gewirtz is a graduate of Tufts University, where he was a four-year member and 1990-91 captain of the Tufts varsity tennis team and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School, where he was the recipient of a three-year merit scholarship.