Faculty Profile

Alan Jacobs
Lecturer

3348 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-7921
E-mail: jacobsa@rhsmith.umd.edu

Alan Jacobs

Mr. Jacobs practiced corporate securities and M&A law for over 30 years with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Heller Ehrman LLP, and as Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of three NYSE-listed companies. He was also a member of the Staff of the SEC in Washington, DC. and a practicing tax accountant with Grant Thornton. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of two public companies and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Southwestern University School of Law and Cal Western School of Law, lecturing in Corporation Law, Securities Regulation, Law and Accounting, and Real Estate Taxation. He also lectured in Entrepreneurship at the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland before joining the faculty of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is a member of: the Mergers & Acquisition Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, the National Association of Corporate Directors and the NASDAQ Delisting Panel. He holds a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland and a JD degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Mr. Jacobs is licensed as a CPA in Maryland and California, and admitted to practice law in California, Texas and the District of Columbia.