Victor E. Stewart

A. was named Valedictorian of St. Marks School Class of 1968;

B. is a 1972 graduate of Yale College (B.A. English), a 1975 graduate of Harvard Business School (M.B.A.), and a 1979 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School (J.D.) and served on The Virginia Journal of International Law (1977-1979), Articles Editor (1978-1979);

C. is admitted: 1979, Virginia (sustaining); 1980, New York; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1984, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York;

D. began involvement with class action litigation in 1984 with Strobl v. New York Mercantile Exchange, 582 F. Supp. 770 (S.D.N.Y. 1984.); aff’d, 768 F.2d 22 (2d Cir. 1985); cert. denied, Simplot v. Strobl, 474 U.S. 1006, 106 S.Ct. 527 (1985); subsequently has litigated class actions with the Firm, including In re Sumitomo Copper Litigation, 96 Civ. 4584 (MP); In re NASDAQ Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation, M.D.L. No. 123 (S.D.N.Y.); Eugenia J. Fiala, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al., Index No. 00/601181 (N.Y.S. Sup. Ct.); Initial Public Offering Antitrust Litigation, 01 CV 2014 (WHP) (S.D.N.Y.) and Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 21 MC 92 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.); and

E. has more than twenty-five years' experience in the securities field, including securities litigation, public and private securities offerings both as issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel, arbitrage, mortgage securitization and financial markets analysis.