Impact Investing and Social Enterprises

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, 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 sustainable
entrepreneurship and the civil and human rights of older persons. 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 newsletter and visit his website at alangutterman.com. Many of Alan's research papers
and 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.