Alan Gutterman’s prolific output of practical guidance and tools for legal and financial professionals, managers, entrepreneurs and investors has made him one of the best-selling individual authors in the global legal publishing marketplace.
His cornerstone work, Business Transactions Solution, is an online-only product available and featured on Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw (subscription required), the world’s largest legal content platform, which includes almost 200 book-length modules covering the entire lifecycle of a business.
Alan has also authored or edited over 100 books on sustainable entrepreneurship, leadership and management, business law and transactions, international law and business and technology management for a number 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 counsel with internationally recognized law firms counseling small and large business enterprises 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, and has also held senior management positions with several technology-based businesses including service as the chief legal officer of a leading international distributor of IT products headquartered in Silicon Valley and as the chief operating officer of an emerging broadband media company.
He has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, including Berkeley Law, Golden Gate University, Hastings College of Law, Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco, teaching classes on corporate finance, venture capital, corporate governance, Japanese business law and law and economic development.
He has also launched and oversees projects relating to promoting the civil and human rights of older persons and a human rights-based approach to entrepreneurship.
He received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph. D. from the University of Cambridge.
For more information about Alan and his activities, please contact him directly at alangutterman@gmail.com, follow him on LinkedIn, subscribe to his newsletters (Older Persons’ Rights Project and Entrepreneurship | Human Rights) and visit his website at alangutterman.com.
Many of Alan’s research papers and other publications are also available through SSRN and Google Scholar.
Information regarding Alan’s extensive library of publications with Thomson Reuters is available at the Legal Solutions online storefront and Business Transactions Solutions can be accessed on WESTLAW (subscription required).
Amazon customers can find Alan’s books on the Kindle Store and links to other online sellers that distribute Alan’s e-books can be found on his Books2Read author page.
