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‘Jeff B. Gewirtz is responsible for advising BSE’s board of advisory directors and executive management on key legal, business, and strategic matters for BSE’s broad sports and entertainment industry holdings. These include the Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Centre, the business operations of the New York Islanders, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the NBA D-League’s Long Island Nets, and ENTITLE, a venue naming rights and sponsorship sales and advisory joint venture with Cooper Holdings. In this role, Gewirtz is responsible not only for the day-to-day legal and business affairs for BSE companies and ventures, but also for ensuring the continued success of a diverse portfolio of game-changing sports entities. The GC Powerlist seeks in-house counsel who are driving legal business forward. Gewirtz is at the centre of BSE’s aggressive venue acquisition strategy and, with his executive management team, tirelessly pursues new opportunities for BSE, leveraging their unique assets spanning a wide array of sports, venues, leagues, and business aspects, with a big-picture view of the entertainment market and sports law. Gewirtz’s leadership on recent public matters includes negotiating an arena naming rights agreement with New York Community Bank for the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which reopened in April 2017. Gewirtz was previously on the team that negotiated a long-term lease to take over Nassau Coliseum beginning in August 2015. Another recent transaction led by Gewirtz was a partnership with AEG, announced in April 2017, for the proposed joint purchase of the operating rights, assets, and long-term lease of renowned Manhattan concert venue, Webster Hall. In addition, he ran the extension of the Brooklyn Nets’ existing media rights agreement with YES Network for the exhibition of the team’s games and ancillary programme. Gewirtz’s career with BSE also includes: The relocation of the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn; development of the $1bn Barclays Centre [and the] negotiation of various aspects of the 20-year Barclays Centre facility naming rights alliance, the largest transaction of its kind in history at the time. [He also worked on] the launch of business operations for and relocation of the New York Islanders from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to Barclays Centre, team and ownership transfer transactions and the development of the HSS Training Centre, the Nets’ new state-of-the-art practice facility. Gewirtz [and his team] was named in The Legal 500 GC Powerlist: United States Teams in 2015. In addition, he was named to the “Forty Under 40” list by Sports Business Journal in 2009. Prior to joining BSE, Gewirtz served as general counsel for the United States Olympic Committee and represented one of the largest buyers of sports marketing rights in the world, the Coca-Cola Company. He has also served as general counsel of the LPGA Tour. As the top legal and business advisor of several major entities in the US sports entertainment market with a deep playbook of general counsel experience, Gewirtz makes an ideal candidate for this year’s GC Powerlist’.