ALAN GUTTERMAN, FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
GUTTERMAN LAW & BUSINESS
Alan Gutterman has had a number of interesting careers – lawyer, author, entrepreneur, COO, teacher and coach.
In the legal world, Alan is a well known and widely respected business counselor for small and large businesses, entrepreneurs and investors. He received his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California in Berkeley and has also earned a PhD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, where he was affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Business Research. He has been a partner and senior counsel at internationally recognized law firms where he has specialized in the areas of general corporate and securities matters, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, international law and transactions, strategic business alliances, technology transfers and intellectual property. He has also served as the chief legal officer of a leading international wholesaler in the information technology industry headquartered in Silicon Valley. He is currently a partner of The General Counsel LLC, which focuses on providing high-value general counsel services to emerging and mid-sized companies on a part- or full-time basis, and is also the director of the Center for Comparative Management Studies.
In the publications area Alan has been an innovator in the organization and communication of practical legal and business advice. He is the developer and author of Business Transactions Solutions, the top-selling online practice resource for transactional attorneys available through Thomson Reuters/West, the world’s leading legal publisher. In addition, he regularly updates California Transactions Forms, another Thomson Reuters/West publication, and several treatises dealing with technology transactions, strategic alliances, compliance and goverance, law firm practice management, organizational management and administration and global business that are also published by Thomson Reuters/West. All of these publications can be accessed through WESTLAW™ for further review. Over the years he has authored a number of other books and articles on a wide range of topics, including intellectual property, financing start-ups, counseling emerging companies, online business activities and international transactions. For further information, please see Books and Online Databases.
Alan has been a successful entrepreneur and has built his publication business—Gutterman Law & Business—into an emerging provider of content for legal professionals and managers in the form of books, online information, programs and consulting services. He has academic training in business management—an M.B.A. degree, with a specialization in finance, from the University of California at Berkeley and a D.B.A. degree from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. In addition, he has had “on the ground” experience managing an emerging business as the chief operating officer of a broadband media company, a chapter of his life that really brought into focus his interest in emerging company management and the need for resources on that topic that could be used by executives, managers and entrepreneurs of such companies around the world.
Alan has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, including Boalt Hall, Golden Gate University, Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco, teaching classes on a diverse range of topics including corporate finance, venture capital, corporate law, Japanese business law and law and economic development. He also has longstanding local, national and international ties to the professional community through his service as an officer of various bar association committees. Alan has served as a member of the executive committees of the Business Law and International Law Sections of the State Bar of California and as the co-chair or vice-chair of the Asia-Pacific, Europe and International Commercial Transactions Committees and the International Corporate Counsel Forum of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association. While serving in these positions he has organized and presented a number of educational programs on a broad range of legal and business topics.
In addition to teaching and coaching other lawyers, entrepreneurs and managers, Alan has been blessed with opportunity to coach each of his four sons and their colleagues over the years in a wide range of sporting activities—baseball, basketball and soccer—and has enjoyed many hours of watching them “grow up” as they compete on the field and perform in concerts and plays. Most importantly, all that he has done—and hopes to do—can be traced to the support and love of his life and business partner, his wife Kathy. They currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Alan was born, grew up and has spent most of his professional life. For more information on Alan, please see his short professional summary and resume.
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