About Dr. Michael A. S. Guth, Attorney at Law, Strategic Planning Consultant
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MICHAEL A. S. GUTH, Ph.D., J.D.
Attorney at Law
Licensed in Tenn. since 1998
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116 Oklahoma Ave.
Oak Ridge, TN
37830-8604
Phone: (865) 483-8309
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Prior to entering law school, Dr. Michael Guth worked as an investment banker in Europe for
Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston from late 1989 - 1992. When he returned
to the United States in 1992, several New York investment banks were interested in having him join their research departments, but he
preferred to have more direct contact with the market through an arbitrage trading group or client contact with
corporate finance transactions. Instead, of accepting a research department position in New York, he returned to his home town of Oak Ridge, TN, where he broadened
his risk management skills to include environmental contamination risks.
He always remained interested in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), particularly forward-looking strategies.
However, investment banks normally hire MBAs to work on M&A transactions, not Ph.D. economists. On the legal side of M&A transactions, lawyers are involved in drafting
the merger, acquisition, and divestiture agreements. Thus, in the fall of 1994, Michael Guth decided to
combine his background in financial economics with a law degree, and pursue a career in corporate mergers and restructurings.
Large corporate law firms might perceive an advantage in hiring a corporate associate who knew something about capital markets, floating a bond issue, asset valuation,
and related corporate finance concepts. Here are the results of his law school studies as well as his educational background:
EDUCATION
J.D., Summa Cum Laude, College of Law, Dec. 1997, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Order of the Coif; rank 2nd out of class of 139; Hunton and Williams prize
for the best brief written by a first-year law student at UT in 1995; individually tailored courses on securities
and class action litigation, and drafting contracts for asset-backed securities transactions. Licensed
to practice law (Tennessee), May 1, 1998; Eastern District of Tennessee, Oct. 13, 1999.
Ph.D., (Financial) Economics, March 1988, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
M.S., Social Science (Mathematical Economics), June 1986, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
B.A., Economics, May 1982, Rice University, Houston, Texas. |
During his second year in law school, Michael Guth noticed an
unusually high number of convergence mergers between electric utilities and gas companies, as well as mergers among electric utilities.
This merger activity led him to pursue work directly in the power industry, where he might have the opportunity to see the planning
for a merger first-hand. During his second year of law school, he began working for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
to work on their power business trading floor as a quantitative finance consultant. He worked for TVA part-time during his second year in law school, and then he was fortunate to receive
an offer to join the agency full-time upon completion of his law school studies. Thus began his career in the power and gas industry over the period 1997 - 2002, which would culminate in his
consulting or working for Pacific Gas & Electric's unregulated National Energy Group, Oklahoma Gas and Electric's unregulated power trading group,
Petroleum Institute of Research Associates (PIRA), General Electric Power Systems, and Progress Energy. From 2002 to the present,
he has focused on university teaching and drafting legal documents for clients.
Named After St. Michael the Archangel
International Travel
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
From June 12, 2006 -- June 20, 2006, I was in Singapore delivering a three-day workshop on Project Finance.
PROJECT FINANCE Seminar Outline
From June 21, 2006 -- June 22, 2006, I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia speaking on the new Basel II banking
regulations.
BASEL II Seminar Outline
I departed for the USA on June 23, 2006, aboard the longest commerical flight currently available: a nonstop flight from Singapore to
Newark, New Jersey -- duration 19 hours.
PUBLICATIONS
● Approximately twenty professional publications in peer-reviewed journals. Click on the
“Financial Economics Publications” button above.
● Approximately twenty additional articles in trade journals and industry magazines. See "Power and Gas Industry" button above.
● Wrote a book entitled Speculative Behavior and the Operation of Competitive
Markets Under Uncertainty that received praise (in writing) from a former president of
the American Economics Association and from a Nobel Laureate.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: German, French
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