Alan Isaac Lewis

Alan Lewis has practiced law for over fifteen years.  He regularly advises executivemanagement on all aspects of their businesses.  His practice currently focuses primarily on (1) softwarelicensing and related technology transactions; and (2) corporate counseling andbusiness transactions.  Prior tostarting his own practice, Alan served as an in-house consulting attorney toGeneral Counsels at several technology companies with products and servicesthat included semi-conductors and microprocessors, software for variousvertical markets and storage area networking services.

Prior to working as a consulting in-house attorney, Alanserved as Corporate Counsel to Inktomi Corporation, one of the world’s leadingInternet infrastructure software companies.  During his tenure at Inktomi, Alan worked side-by-side withsenior management in all facets of Inktomi’s business, including productmanagement, direct and indirect sales channels, marketing and PR, revenuerecognition and finance.  While atInktomi, Alan helped the company structure, negotiate, document and close someof its largest and most strategic commercial transactions.  He regularly structured, negotiated,documented and closed OEM, VAR, Portal Services and other transactions with leadingInktomi customers and business partners such as AOL, Microsoft, Lycos, DellComputers, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Williams Communications, to name but afew.  He also managed the designand implementation of mission critical business processes and best practices.

Prior to joining Inktomi’s in-house legal team, Alan was aSenior Associate with the San Francisco offices of the international law firmof McKenna & Cuneo, LLP, now McKenna, Long & Aldridge.  During his tenure at McKenna &Cuneo, Alan served a number of privately held and publicly traded clients.  His practice focused on generalcorporate counseling including the formation and dissolution of partnershipsand Limited Liability Companies, complex multi-million dollar Project Financetransactions, and commercial real estate transactions.  He also successfully litigated severalcomplex environmental cases, including cases that went to trial in both stateand federal courts and resulted in very successful outcomes for the firm’sclients.