Alan Gutterman, the founder and principal of Gutterman Law & Business, 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 the director of the GL&B Institute for Management Training and Studies, which houses and supports several research centers and programs engaged in activities relating to organizational design and management, comparative management studies, management of emerging companies, management in developing countries, global law and business strategies and country and regional 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 the description of Publications on this site.
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, International Investment and Development 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. He has also been invited to join the faculty of the Beyond the Bar training program developed and administered by the West LegalEd Center for new business attorneys and experienced attorneys transitioning to a business and transactional practice.
For more information on Alan, please see his professional summary and resume.
