Jordan Neyland JD, PhD
Antonin Scalia Law School
George Mason University
Office 450B
3301 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA, USA
(703) 993-8639 (Office)
(240) 856-2551 (Cell)
Skype: jordan.neyland
Dual Citizen: USA, Australia
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Law August 2017-current
Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia
Visiting Scholar (IPA) August 2020-August 2021
U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, DERA, Office of Litigation Economics, Washington, D.C.
Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) of Finance July 2011-July 2017
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Visiting Scholar Spring 2016
Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar Winter 2016
Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Accounting, in progress (current GPA 3.8)
George Mason University
Securities & Financial Law Certificate, in progress (current GPA 3.9)
The Law Center, Georgetown University
Graduate Certificate in Forensic Accounting, in progress (current GPA 3.8)
George Mason University
Doctor of Philosophy in Management, Major in Finance, May 2011
The University of Arizona
Master of Science in Management, Concentration in Finance, May 2008
The University of Arizona
Doctor of Jurisprudence, May 2006
University of Houston Law Center
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, May 2004
The University of Texas at Austin
PAPERS/ARTICLES/WORK IN PROGRESS
“Expert Advice in the Presence of Conflicts of Interest: The Case of Star-Crossed Acquisitions” with Gil Aharoni,
Bryan Lim, and Lubo Litov. Forthcoming, Review of Accounting Studies.
“Hidden Wealth Transfers in Bankruptcy Asset Sales: A Real Option Analysis” with Kathryn St. John, 2022,
Berkeley Business Law Journal 19, 46-88.
-Featured in the Harvard Bankruptcy Roundtable
“Love or Money: The Effect of CEO Divorce on Firm Risk and Compensation”, 2020, Journal of Corporate
Finance 60, 101507.
“Financing Acquisitions with Earnouts” with Thomas Bates and Yolanda Wang, 2018, Journal of Accounting and
Economics 66, 374-395.
-Best paper award, runner up, Auckland Finance Meetings, 2016
“How Much is Too Much? Large Termination Fees and Target Distress” with Chander Shekhar, 2018, Journal of
Banking and Finance 88, 97-112.
“Shared Auditors in Mergers and Acquisitions” with Dan Dhaliwal, Phil Lamoreaux, and Lubo Litov, 2016,
Journal of Accounting and Economics 61(1), 49-76.
“Do Lawyers Matter in Initial Public Offerings?” with Thomas Bates and Jin (Roc) Lv.
-Best paper award, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2019
CONFERENCES
Presentations
“Hidden Wealth Transfers in Bankruptcy Asset Sales: A Real Option Analysis”
-Richmond Junior Faculty Forum (Richmond, 2021)
-Manne Forum (Arlington, 2020)
“Do Lawyers Matter in Initial Public Offerings?”
-Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Toronto, 2022)
-AFAANZ, presented by co-author (Brisbane, 2019)
-Financial Management Association (New Orleans, 2019)
-National Business Law Scholars Conference (Berkeley, 2019)
-Quantlaw (Tucson, 2019)
-New Zealand Finance Meeting (Queenstown, 2018)
-Richmond Junior Faculty Forum (Richmond, 2018)
“Star-Crossed: The Dark Side of Star Analysts in Acquisitions”
-National Business Law Scholars Conference (Athens, 2018)
-Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Europe (Leuven, 2018)
-Mid-Atlantic Faculty Forum (Richmond, 2018)
-QuantLaw (Tucson, 2018)
“Financing Acquisitions with Earnouts”
-JAE Conference at Wharton (Philadelphia, 2017)
-Auckland Finance Meeting (Auckland, 2016)
-Financial Research Network Conference (Cairns, 2016)
-FIRN Corporate Finance Research Group Annual Meeting (Sydney, 2016)
CONFERENCES (continued)
“Shared Auditors in Mergers and Acquisitions”
-FIRN Corporate Finance Research Group Annual Meeting (Sydney, 2014)
“How Much is Too Much? Large Termination Fees and Target Distress”
-Financial Research Network Conference (Adelaide, 2016)
-Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (Sydney, 2014)
-Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Berkeley, 2014)
-Auckland Finance Meeting (Auckland, 2013)
-Financial Management Association (Chicago, 2013), presented by co-author
“Love or Money: The Effect of CEO Divorce on Firm Risk and Compensation”
-New Zealand Finance Meetings (Auckland, 2019)
-Financial Management Association - European Meetings (Istanbul, 2012)
-Financial Research Network Conference (Gold Coast, 2011)
-Financial Management Association (New York City, 2010)
Discussant/Panelist/Invited Guest
Wharton Conference on Financial Regulation, Wharton Business School (Philadelphia, 2022)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable on Corporate Law, Yale Law School (New Haven, 2022)
Bankruptcy Panel for the Business Law Society, Scalia Law School (Arlington, 2021)
Research Roundtable on Capitalism and the Rule of Law, Law and Economics Center GMU (Avon, 2021)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable on Corporate Law, Yale Law School (New Haven, 2021)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable on Corporate Law, Yale Law School (New Haven, 2020)
“Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion” with Marla Blow, Beth Rhyne, Dorothe Singer, and Larry Wall.
-AGEP Ninth Annual Financial Services Symposium (Arlington, 2019)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable on Corporate Law, Yale Law School (New Haven, 2019)
Public Choice Economics Workshop (Arlington, 2018)
“Institutional Ownership and the Value of Cash Holdings” by Hyunjoong Im, Heungju Park, Shams Pathan, and
Song Yu
-Financial Management Association (San Diego, 2018)
“The Market Reaction to Changes in Disclosure of Related-Party Transaction Rules” by Vladimir Atanasov,
Adrian Pop, and Diana Pop
-Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Europe (Leuven, 2018)
“High Frequency Trading” with Brian Mannix, John Schwall, and J.W. Verret.
-Eighth Annual Public Policy Institute on Financial Services (Arlington, 2018)
CONFERENCES (continued)
“Are Activist Investors Good or Bad for Business? Evidence from Capital Market Prices” by Glen Young and
Edward Swanson
-Conference on Investor Protection, Corporate Governance, and Fraud Prevention at George Mason University
(Washington DC, 2016)
“Myopic Loss Aversion and Stock Investments” by Yulia Veld-Merkoulova
-Financial Integrity Research Network Conference (Cairns, 2016)
“The Impact of Covenant Violations on Corporate R&D and Innovation” by Sudheer Chava, Vikram Nanda,
and Chong (Steven) Xiao
-Finance Down Under Conference (Melbourne, 2015)
“Firms in Corrupt Environments and the Value of Corporate Governance” by Nishant Dass, Vikram Nanda, and
Chong (Steven) Xiao
-Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (Sydney, 2014)
“Entrenchment and Investment” by Suman Banerjee and Ron Masulis
-Financial Integrity Research Network Conference (Hobart, 2012)
“Idiosyncratic Risk, Managerial Ownership and Firm Value” by Chris Florackis, Angelos Kanas, and Alexandros
Kostakis
-Financial Management Association - European Meetings (Istanbul, 2012)
“What Death Can Tell: Are Executives Paid for Their Contributions to Firm Value?” by Bang Dang Nguyen and
Kasper Meisner Nielsen
-Financial Management Association (New York City, 2010)
SEMINARS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Louisiana Tech University, guest lecturer (Fall 2021)
University of Virginia Law School (April 2020)
George Mason University, Schar School of Policy and Government (May 2019)
The University of Arizona (March 2019)
Loyola University Maryland (October 2018)
Manne Faculty Forum, Scalia Law School (September 2017, September 2018, September 2019, August 2020)
Georgetown Law School (September 2017)
The University of Adelaide (May 2017)
Securities and Exchange Commission (May 2016)
University of Pennsylvania Law School (May 2016)
American University (February 2016, March 2016)
The University of Adelaide (October 2012)
La Trobe University (July 2012)
The University of Queensland (May 2012)
Victoria University at Wellington (March 2011)
The University of Melbourne (March 2011)
Wayne State University (November 2010)
MEDIA/PRESS COVERAGE
Thedig.substack.com May 12, 2022
“Musk has promises to keep, and new obstacles in his Twitter quest”
Strategy+Business, July 16, 2020
“When the CEO gets divorced, who else pays the price?”
Marketwatch.com (a top 15 business media website), July 30, 2019
“Carl Icahn may be Right about Occidental’s Anadarko Deal, but for a Different Reason”
InvestmentNews.com, July 19, 2019
“US rate of gray divorce has doubled since the 90s”
Bloomberg.com, July 19, 2019
“Divorce Is Destroying the Finances of Americans Over 50” (reposted in LATIMES.com)
Knowledge@Wharton, January 22, 2019
Podcast from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School on the Bezos Divorce
Linkedin Pulse January 19, 2019
Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos is a Strategic Wolf - Here's How You Can Be One Too
Tencent News (China’s leading mobile news app), January 17, 2019
“The World’s Richest Man, Bezos, has a Hard Time Dividing his Assets after Divorce: Three Possibilities of
Dividing the Stock”
Sohu News, January 10, 2019
“The World’s Richest Person, Bezos, got Divorced: Can his Wife Get $68.5 Billion? Will Ownership Change?”
CNBC.com, January 9, 2019
“How the Bezos Divorce could Impact Amazon Shareholders” (reposted in dozens of online news sources)
Marketwatch.com (a top 15 business media website), July 27, 2018
“The Spectacular Rise and Fall of MoviePass”
Marketwatch.com (a top 15 business media website), June 11, 2018
“Why One Homebuilder May Have Picked Up a Rival on the Cheap”
The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2018
“The Spectacular Rise and Fall of MoviePass”
Marketwatch.com (a top 15 business media website), October 14, 2015
“Why Dell May Have Got a Bargain with EMC”
Marketwatch.com (a top 15 business media website), May 19, 2015
“When Acquirer and Target in M&A Talks Share an Auditor, Purchase Price Can Suffer”
Re: The Auditors, February 2, 2015
“When Auditors Get Mixed Up in M&A, Smaller Clients Get Hurt”
The Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2013
“Should Shareholders Know about a CEO’s Divorce?”
Agenda (from the Financial Times), October 14, 2013
“CEO Divorce: A Personal but Sometimes Public Matter”
GRANTS
C-RASC
2021: $10,000 (USD) for project on COVID-19 adaptation
Faculty Research Grant
2014: $9,000 (AUD) for “Do Judges Destroy Value? Judicial Bias’ Impact on the Firm”
2013: $12,500 (AUD) for “How do Matches Break Down? Evidence from Directors' Family Member Deaths”
2012: $7,015 (AUD) for “Does Legal Counsel Expertise Add Value? Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions”
HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The University of Arizona
Full Tuition Waiver, 2006-2010; Graduate Assistantship Recipient, 2006-2010
University of Houston Law Center
Dean’s Scholarship Recipient, 2004 - 2006
TEACHING
George Mason University, Scalia Law School:
Securities Law & Regulation (Law 317, JD)
Spring, 2022 (10 students) – 4.7/5
Business Bootcamp (Law 083, JD)
Winter, 2021 (18 students) – 4.5/5
Winter, 2020 - unrated
Winter, 2019 (12 students) – 4.0/5
Bankruptcy (Law 167, JD)
Fall, 2021 (4 students) – 4.7/5
Spring, 2020 (7 students) – unrated
Fall, 2018 (6 students) – 4.6/5
Fall, 2017 (2 students) – unrated
Contracts (Law 102, JD)
Fall, 2022 (25 students) – TBD/5
Fall, 2019 (39 students) – 3/5
Corporate Acquisitions (Law 194, JD)
Spring, 2022 (7 students) – 4.8/5
Spring, 2020 (4 students) – unrated
Spring, 2018 (7 students) – 4.8/5
The University of Melbourne, Department of Finance:
Thesis Workshop (FNCE 90059, PhD)
Semester 1, 2013 (9 students) - 5/5
Mergers and Value Enhancing Strategies (FNCE 90012, Master’s)
Semester 1, 2013 (40 students) - 4.3/5
TEACHING (continued)
Research Methods in Finance (FNCE 40004, Honours)
Semester 1, 2013 (32 students) - 3.8/5
Finance 1 (FNCE 10001, Undergraduate)
Semester 2, 2015 (611 students) - 4.3/5
Semester 2, 2014 (618 students) - 4.5/5
Summer, 2014 (128 students) - 4.2/5
Semester 2, 2013 (504 students) - 4.0/5
Semester 2, 2012 (471 students) - 3.6/5
The University of Arizona, Department of Finance:
Master’s Student Report (Finance 909, Master’s)
Summer, 2008 (12 students) - Unrated
Summer, 2009 (12 students) - 4.1/5
Quantitative Financial Management (Finance 360, Undergraduate)
Summer, 2010 (28 students) - 4.3/5
STUDENT THESIS ADVISING
Juris Doctor
Steven Carlson
Doctor of Philosophy
Yubo (Michael) Liu
Master of Commerce
Xiang Cai, Shuin (Kevin) Yap
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
Emma Howat, George Stavrakis, Ryan Koh - Honours Medal Winner, Wenwei (Tina) Zhao, Jingyun (Michelle)
Jiang, Mengchen (Irene) Yang, Michelle Yii
SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT
Academic Referee
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Abacus
Journal of Banking and Finance
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
International Review of Law and Economics
The Financial Review
Accounting and Finance
Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium
Journal of Corporate Finance
SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT (continued)
Affiliations/Memberships
Law and Economics Center at Antonin Scalia Law School, Research Fellow
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
Western Finance Association
American Finance Association
European Finance Association
Financial Management Association
Financial Research Network (FIRN)
Committee Member
Scalia Law School:
Curriculum, 2017, 2018, 2019 (chair), 2021
LRWA Director Search, 2018, 2019
Library and Technology, 2018
Planning, Outcomes, and Assessments, 2017, 2018
University of Melbourne:
Finance Down Under Conference (FDU), 2012-2014
Recruitment for Department of Finance, 2012
Program Committee
Conference on Financial Market Regulation, Referee (2021)
Financial Management Association (2019, 2020, 2021)
New Zealand Finance Meeting (2019, 2021)
Auckland Finance Meeting (2017, 2018)
FMA Asia – Sydney (2016)
REFERENCES
References are available upon request.
