Charles Peter Ortmeyer
Owner & CEB Advisory Committee Member
Charles Ortmeyer’s practice covers a variety of business law matters, with over 35 years of experience at large firms and in his own private practice. He opened the Law Office of Charles P. Ortmeyer in 2003 and has represented many businesses and firms across a dozen industries on a wide range of business law issues. Mr. Ortmeyer graduated from the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1979, where he was a senior editor on the California Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. From 1979 to 1981, he was a law clerk to the Hon. Betty B. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Ortmeyer started as a litigator at the San Francisco firm Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter. He then practiced as a business lawyer and Director at the San Francisco firm, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, APC (now Arnold & Porter LLP), from 1983 to 2000. Mr. Ortmeyer’s practice emphasized e-commerce and internet-related companies, retailing and consumer transactions, and representation of financial service businesses, including banks, hedge funds, investment advisers, and broker-dealers. He left Howard Rice to become Senior Vice President and General Counsel to the Nasdaq-listed Internet service provider, PeoplePC, Inc., during 2000 to 2002. Mr. Ortmeyer is member of CEB’s Advisory Board and co-author of “Forming and Operating California Limited Liability Companies,” (3rd Ed.), CEB 2016. He is also the co-author of “Securities Regulation Forms,” Clark Boardman Callaghan, which is a four=volume treatise on documentation of securities transactions. Beyond publishing, Mr. Ortmeyer has been active in the California State Bar Business Law Section and in several community organizations in Contra Costa County and the San Ramon Valley. He has chair/co-chaired three committees of the California State Bar's Business Law Section, including the Financial Institutions Committee (1994 to 1995), Corporate Law Departments (2007 to 2008), and Corporations Committee (2010 to 2011).
