John Orcutt
Professor of Law
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
- JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley
- jorcutt@piercelaw.edu
- (603) 513-5185
- Courses: Securities Regulation, Contracts, Business Associations, Trade Secrets
- Committees: ABA Accreditation (ad hoc), Curriculum, Judicial Clerkships
- Scholarship
Before coming to Franklin Pierce, Professor Orcutt spent eight years as both a capital markets attorney and an investment banker. Most recently, Professor Orcutt was a Principal at Robertson Stephens, a Silicon Valley investment bank, where he was the head of its West Coast Telecom Services investment banking practice. He also served as Chief Administrative Officer of Robertson Stephens' M&A group and as its Associate General Counsel. Prior to joining Robertson Stephens, Professor Orcutt was a Corporate Finance Associate with Shearman & Sterling, serving in both its New York, NY and Paris, France offices, where he specialized in securities offerings by European companies conducting dual listings in the United States and Europe.
Professor Orcutt teaches courses in Business Associations, Contracts, Securities Regulation, and Trade Secrets. He has also recently taught Mergers and Acquisitions and Start-up Company Finance. Professor Orcutt frequently teaches IP, Entrepreneurialism and Foreign Direct Investment in China in Pierce Law’s Summer Intellectual Property Institute in Beijing, China. Professor Orcutt has been selected Pierce Law’s “Teacher of the Year” for five straight years, from 2004-2008.
Professor Orcutt recently co-founded Pierce Law’s International Technology Transfer Institute, whose mission is to increase the flow of technology (either through improved innovation creation processes or increased technology transfer) to countries in need of help.
In 2008, Professor Orcutt was elected chairperson of New Hampshire's “EPSCoR” Statewide Committee. New Hampshire is a member state in the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). EPSCoR’s goal is to maximize science and technology resources through partnerships among universities, industries, state government, and federal R&D agencies and operates on the principle that aiding researchers and institutions in securing federal funding will develop a state's research infrastructure and advance economic growth. New Hampshire’s EPSCoR Statewide Committee brings representation from all major areas of postsecondary education, as well as industry and government, to the state’s EPSCoR initiatives.
Professor Orcutt's research interests include capital market reforms and various topics related to the private equity markets, including how to improve the environment for financing entrepreneurial companies. He also conducts research in the law of trade secrets and in various matters related to national innovation systems and technology transfer.
Bibliography
The Case Against Exempting Smaller Reporting Companies From Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: Why Market-Based Solutions are Likely to Harm Ordinary Investors, 14 FORDHAM JOURNAL OF CORPORATE & FINANCIAL LAW ___ (upcoming fall 2008).
Improving the Efficiency of the Angel Finance Market: A Proposal to Expand the Intermediary Role of Finders in the Private Capital Raising Setting, 37 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL 861 (2005).
Investor Skepticism v. Investor Confidence: Why the New Research Analyst Reforms Will Harm Investors, 81 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1 (2003).
Maybe IPOs Aren’t the Answer? An Evidence-Based Approach to Regulating Venture Capital Exits More Efficiently [work in progress]
Developing Effective University/Industry/Government Partnerships in Key Economies: Engineering More Innovative Environments [work in progress]
