About the Third Edition Authors
RICHARD G. BURT received his B.A. degree in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. degree in 1973 from George Washington University. Mr. Burt practices law in San Jose, specializing in commercial and real estate transactions and business organizations. He has served several times as a member of the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee of the State Bar’s Business Law Section.
CHRISTOPHER CHEDIAK received his B.S. degree in 1980 from the University of California, Davis, and his J.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Southern California. Mr. Chediak is a shareholder and a member of the corporate department of the Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin Law Corporation in Sacramento. He is a member of the State Bar Business Law Section’s Corporations Committee and formerly a member of the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee that assisted the legislature in drafting California’s LLC Act.
PAUL J. DERENTHAL received his B.A. degree in 1976 from the University of San Francisco and his J.D. degree in 1980 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Derenthal is a partner in the law firm of Derenthal & Dannhauser LLP in Oakland. His practice focuses on counseling clients on matters relating to business organization, operations, capitalization and transactions, and advising on securities law compliance matters.
ALLAN B. DUBOFF received his B.A. degree in 1980 from the University of California, Los Angeles, his J.D. degree in 1984 from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Duboff, of Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, specializes in general corporate, partnership, limited liability company matters and in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures, and licensing matters. He was a member of the State Bar Business Law Section’s Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee that assisted the legislature in drafting California’s LLC Act and was the editor and primary drafter of the State Bar’s Guide to Organizing and Operating a Limited Liability Company in California. He also has served as Treasurer of Business Law Section of the State Bar and as Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business and Corporations Law Section.
JAMES F. FOTENOS is a partner in Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh LLP, San Francisco, and holds A.B., J.D., and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University and its Law School and School of Business, respectively. His practice focuses on corporate, securities, and pass-through entity counseling, including representing issuers in private debt and equity financing, corporate governance, SEC reporting and compliance, and mergers and acquisitions. He is a frequent contributor to CEB publications. He has served as Co-Chair of the Opinions Committee and the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, as a member and Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section, and as Chair of the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee. He is the editor of the quarterly newsletter In Our Opinion, published by the Legal Opinions Committee of the ABA’s Business Law Section.
EDWARD GARTENBERG received his B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1971 and his J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1974. His practice experience encompasses complex business and securities litigation; arbitration; and federal, state, and regulatory investigations. He is experienced as counsel and as an expert witness in partnership, LLC, and securities issues. Mr. Gartenberg was formerly a Special Counsel at the Division of Enforcement of the SEC and a Special Assistant United States Attorney. He has served as an arbitrator for AAA and FINRA. Before co-founding his current firm, Gartenberg Gelfand Hayton LLP, Los Angeles, he served as Chair of the SEC Defense and Securities Litigation practice of a major international law firm. Mr. Gartenberg also served as Chair of the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee of the State Bar. He has lectured numerous times at law schools, continuing legal education programs, and professional organizations. He has also written extensively on partnership, LLC, fiduciary duty, and ethics issues.
BENJAMIN D. GEMPERLE received his B.S. degree from Loyola Marymount University in 1995, his M.B.A. from Loyola Marymount University in 1999 with an emphasis in finance and management, and his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2002, where he served as Chief Research Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review. Mr. Gemperle is a senior counsel in the Los Angeles office of Locke Lord LLP, where he focuses on complex commercial real estate and corporate transactions. He has significant experience in the formation and governance of privately held entities, as well as private debt and equity offerings, and securities compliance matters. Mr. Gemperle’s corporate work is complemented by his real estate practice, where he focuses primarily on commercial leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, and secured financing transactions.
MARTIN T. GOLDBLUM received his J.D. degree from the New York University School of Law, where he was an officer of the law review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He served as a clerk for Judge Oscar H. Davis of the U.S. Court of Claims (now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) and as an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice before moving to California and entering private practice. Mr. Goldblum chairs the Tax Department of TroyGould PC. He has broad expertise in tax matters, but focuses primarily on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, and corporate and partnership taxation. He has been chosen as a Super Lawyer for Southern California for the last several years, as well as for the year 2014.
PHILLIP L. JELSMA received his B.S. degree from the University of Southern California and his J.D. degree from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review. Mr. Jelsma is a partner in Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (or cgs3), a San Diego law firm specializing in real estate transactions. He is an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he teaches the Taxation of Property Transactions course. He has served as a member of the State Bar of California Drafting Committees for the Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company Act, the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, and the Revised Uniform Partnership Act.
DIETRICK L. MILLER received his B.A. degree in 2000 from Portland State University, his M.A. in 2004 from National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, and his J.D. degree in 2012 from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal. Mr. Miller is an associate in TroyGould PC’s Corporate Department and China Practice Group, where his practice includes general corporate law and governance, cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and regulatory compliance.
CHARLES P. ORTMEYER received his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, in 1979, where he was a senior editor of the California Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. During 1979–1981, Mr. Ortmeyer was a law clerk to the Hon. Betty B. Fletcher, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His San Ramon-based practice is focused on business formation, financing, and transactions. His industry experience includes technology products and services, telecommunications, hedge funds and venture capital funds, contract manufacturing, and software development and licensing. Mr. Ortmeyer is the co-author of Securities Regulation Forms (Clark Boardman Callaghan), a 4-volume treatise on documentation of securities transactions.
MICHAEL G. SCHINNER received his B.A. degree from the College of Mount St. Joseph on the Ohio, his J.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati, where he was a member of the Law Review, and his LL.M. (Taxation) from Golden Gate University. Mr. Schinner is the founder of the Schinner Law Group, a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based law firm specializing in corporate and tax law. He is also an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, where he teaches courses on limited liability companies and S corporations. He is a frequent lecturer for CEB, the Bar Association of San Francisco, and the State Bar of California, and he has published articles in CEB’s California Business Law Practitioner and California Business Law Reporter, the California Tax Lawyer, the Journal of Taxation, the Journal of S Corporation Taxation, and the American Journal of Tax Policy.
DALE E. SHORT received his B.S. degree in 1977 from Iowa State University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. degree in 1980 from the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was a member of the Law Review. He is chairman of TroyGould PC’s Corporate Department, where his practice is devoted primarily to corporate and securities transactions for a client mix of public companies and successful, privately held businesses. Mr. Short was named by The Best Lawyers in America as the “2014 Los Angeles Securities Regulation Lawyer of the Year” and has earned a listing in Best Lawyers® on numerous occasions, most recently in 2014.
WILLIAM F. WEBSTER received his B.A. degree in 1981 from the University of California, Santa Barbara; his J.D. degree in 1989 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; and his LL.M. in Taxation in 2011 from the University of San Diego. Mr. Webster is an attorney at Boutin Jones, Inc., a law firm in Sacramento. He is a former member of the Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the State Bar Business Law Section and of the Executive Committee of the Business Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association.
About the 2022 Update Authors
RICHARD G. BURT is the 2022 update author of Chapters 1 and 7. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Burt’s biography.
CHRISTOPHER CHEDIAK is a 2022 update co-author of Chapter 12 and the update author of Chapter 13. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Chediak’s biography.
MILENA DOLUKHANYAN received her B.S. degree from California State University, Northridge, in 2008 and her J.D. degree from the University of West Los Angeles in 2015. Ms. Dolukhanyan is an associate at Gartenberg Gelfand Hayton LLP, Los Angeles, with a practice that focuses on complex business and securities litigation, arbitration, and federal, state, and regulatory investigations. Ms. Dolukhanyan is a 2022 update co-author of Chapters 8 and 10.
ALLAN B. DUBOFF is the 2022 update author of Chapter 6. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Duboff’s biography.
EDWARD GARTENBERG is a 2022 update co-author of Chapters 8 and 10. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Gartenberg’s biography.
PHILLIP L. JELSMA is the 2022 update author of Chapters 4 and 5. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Jelsma’s biography.
CHRISTOPHER A. KARACHALE is the 2022 update author of Chapter 3. Mr. Karachale is a partner at Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco, where he advises individuals and business entities on a broad range of tax planning and tax controversy matters. He also serves as outside general counsel to small and medium-sized businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Karachale publishes and speaks widely on a variety of topics, including tax issues affecting start-ups and their founders. He is certified as a legal specialist in taxation law and has been named a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2013. Mr. Karachale received his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College, an M.A. degree from Stanford University, his J.D. degree from the University of San Francisco, and an LL.M. degree in Tax from New York University.
CHARLES P. ORTMEYER is the 2022 update author of Chapter 16. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Ortmeyer’s biography.
MICHAEL G. SCHINNER is the 2022 update author of Chapter 15. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Schinner’s biography.
WILLIAM F. WEBSTER is a 2022 update co-author of Chapter 12. See the “About the Third Edition Authors” section for Mr. Webster’s biography.
