Christopher Gonzalez is the managing partner of the Business/Corporate & Civil Law Group where his practice focuses on business, corporate and civil matters. 

He currently serves as a member of the management team as General/Special Counsel of several Internet ventures and “brick and mortar” business organizations.  His clientele ranges from individuals, start-up ventures and privately held family to international corporations, where he was engaged to serve as special counsel to corporate boards of directors and to independent committees of corporate boards of directors.

Christopher currently serves as Special General Counsel for a leading worldwide entity in web site hosting, serving over 150,000 members with affordable, reliable web hosting solutions (www.iPowerWeb.com).  His representation covers all aspects of the business, including, mergers and acquisitions, electronic commerce, strategic partnerships and alliances and other technological matters.  He also provides a combination of broad litigation and transactional experience with in-depth knowledge and expertise on Internet related issues.

Christopher served as the Director of Legal Operations and General Counsel of iBoost Technology, Inc. (www.iBoost.com), a Softbank Venture Capital portfolio company. Mr. Gonzalez was responsible for all of the company's legal affairs, including all operational agreements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities matters. Christopher was with the company since its inception. At iBoost, Christopher managed, controlled and directed the company’s fast-paced legal team. His practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, electronic commerce, strategic partnerships and alliances, other technological matters and counsels the company in all legal matters related to the operation of it’s Internet vast network of properties. Christopher provided corporate and legal support to management and the board of directors. His representation extended from venture capital to M&As and transactional matters that regularly faced the company in pursuing success on the Internet arena.

Christopher also served as General Counsel to B.N. Technology, Inc. (www.icom.com; Interliant, Inc. NASDAQ: INIT; www.interliant.com) where his practice centrally focused on Internet related matters.

Moreover, Christopher has acted as counsel to, a director of, and shareholder in, a number of development-stage companies in the venture capital business. He was a founding stockholder and chairman of Globat, Inc., an Internet media and targeted advertising brokerage services/software Firm. He acts as a legal consultant for start-ups, brick and mortar enterprises that desire to expand onto the Internet and existing Internet businesses.

Christopher also counsels businesses in the start-up stages that entrepreneurs face, including business plan development, first round funding procurement and business implementation. Consistent with the creation of growth/technology practice groups and the dot.com world, Christopher has developed his skills from numerous disciplines to mold into a specialized dot.com practitioner.

Outside of the technology world, he served as General and Special Legal Counsel to corporations, governmental and public agencies (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, Los Angeles Community College District, Rio Hondo Community College District, Richgrove School District, Oxnard School District, Sacramento Unified School District, South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority, County of San Bernardino).

In the community, Mr. Gonzalez currently serves as a director of, among others, Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Urban Youth Program (http://www.lajcc.org/uyg/index.html) and the Manny Mota International Foundation (Los Angeles Dodgers) http://www.mannymotafoundation.org).

Mr. Gonzalez received his B.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his law degree from Whittier Law School, where he served on the Whittier Law Review and as President of the Hispanic American Law Students Association (H.A.L.S.A.). During law school, Mr. Gonzalez studied international law in Madrid, Spain at the College of William & Mary School of Law, Colegio Mayor Universitario San Pablo.

Mr. Gonzalez is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, American Bar Association, Mexican American Bar Association and the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association. Mr. Gonzalez is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of California, the United States District Court of the Central District of California and the United States Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit.