Alan Gutterman's prolific output ofpractical guidance and tools for legal and financial professionals, managers,entrepreneurs and investors has made him one of the best-selling individualauthors in the global legal publishing marketplace. His cornerstone work, Business Transactions Solution, is an online-only product available and featured on Thomson Reuters’Westlaw, the world’s largest legal content platform, which includes almost 200book-length modules covering the entire lifecycle of a business. Alan has also authored or edited over 100 books onsustainable entrepreneurship, leadership and management, business law andtransactions, international law and business and technology management for anumber of publishers including Thomson Reuters, Practical Law, Kluwer,Aspatore, Oxford, Quorum, ABA Press, Aspen, Sweet & Maxwell, Euromoney,Business Expert Press, Harvard Business Publishing, CCH and BNA. Alan has extensive experience as a partner and senior counselwith internationally recognized law firms counseling small and large businessenterprises in the areas of general corporate and securities matters, venturecapital, mergers and acquisitions, international law and transactions,strategic business alliances, technology transfers and intellectual property,and has also held senior management positions with several technology-basedbusinesses including service as the chief legal officer of a leadinginternational distributor of IT products headquartered in Silicon Valley and asthe chief operating officer of an emerging broadband media company. He has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges anduniversities, including Berkeley Law, Golden Gate University, Hastings Collegeof Law, Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco, teachingclasses on corporate finance, venture capital, corporate governance, Japanesebusiness law and law and economic development. He has also launched and oversees projects relating to sustainableentrepreneurship and the civil and human rights of older persons. He received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph. D. fromthe University of Cambridge. For more information aboutAlan and his activities, please contact him directly at alangutterman@gmail.com, follow him on LinkedIn, subscribe to his newsletter and visit his website at alangutterman.com. Many of Alan’s research papersand other publications are also available through SSRN and Google Scholar. Robert L. Brown is a member in the Louisville office of Lynch Cox Gilman & Goodman PSC, where he devotes his attention to representing emerging businesses---start-ups, as well as established companies expanding operations by acquisition or merger. Mr. Brown's areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and unfair competition, corporate and securities, economic development, exports and imports, finance, international and product distribution. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and a second one from The London School of Economics and Political Science. He also has a Masters of Law in international trade from the University of London and a Masters in Science from Jochi University in Tokyo on Japanese business, as well as JD and MBA degrees from the University of Louisville. His global practice has led to admissions as an attorney in California, New York, Washington DC and Kentucky, and as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Hong Kong.
