Representative Transactions

General representation of a number of companies engaged in organic, natural, and health food products, including acquisitions, financing, and certification issues.
Represent local private equity fund in mixed-used real estate investments in several front range counties.
Assisted successful entrepreneur in establishing a new company with a data base and service arrangement to act as third party administrator in the provision of cost effective pharmaceutical services to self-funded employers.
Structured a complex joint venture arrangement involving a major Colorado‑based health insurer, hospital, and several medical clinics.
Negotiated arrangements for our client to participate in the establishment of management of hospitals and other medical care providers in third world countries.
Continuous representation of a large Russian-based raw materials producer, including the negotiation of a joint venture with an American-based Fortune 500 manufacturer.
Represented a large private equity fund in diligence review and structuring/negotiating the purchase of a minority interest in a local builder, involving investment in more than 20 single-purpose entities with real estate in several front range counties.
Negotiation and drafting joint venture, manufacturing, and distribution relationships with parties in France, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan, and China.
Formation, development, and sale of company with valuable FCC licenses.
Complex recapitalization and restructuring of nationwide retail business, including creating three levels of subordinated debt and four classes of limited partnership equity interests. We subsequently represented the reorganized company in connection with its merger with a major New York Stock Exchange company.
Represented owners of distribution business in cash sale to public corporation involving complex multi-state tax issues.
Representation of Denver-based oil and gas company in partnership with a major oil and gas company involving financing, acquisition, development, and sale of several hundred million dollars worth of oil and gas properties and processing facilities.
General structuring and tax advice for a Swiss investor regarding investment in a Canadian manufacturing project.
General representation, including litigation counseling, to major European-based law firm in connection with production and sale of intra vitro media products in the United States, including counseling regarding international trade issues.
Represented national private equity group in restructuring and selling financially troubled portfolio company.
Represented European corporation in acquisition of a domestic mail-order and internet retailer.
Representation of three key managers in leveraged buyout of Denver-based construction company.
General representation of Colorado limited liability company that combined a management buyout and venture capital financing to acquire an existing high technology distribution business.
Organized and continuing general representation of Colorado-based venture capital fund. Assisted the fund on obtaining a Small Business Investment Company license from the SBA and the leveraged financing available under the SBIC program.
Continuing representation of investment partnership in connection with planning and acquisition of various mid-cap privately-held companies in western United States.
Negotiation on behalf of owners of local insurance brokerage firm in tax-free acquisition by New York Stock Exchange company.
Representation of New York Stock Exchange company in acquisition of Denver-based service business in a tax-free reorganization.
Merger of service-related business requiring reconciliation of diverse tax, accounting, legal, and financial objectives.
General representation of European investors who have acquired and expanded a Denver-based high technology manufacturer using foreign and United States incentive programs, including tax-free financing of manufacturing facility and public stock offering in Europe.
Reorganization, including tax-free spin-off of Colorado-based service business, resulting in creation of five new manager-owned businesses.
Representation of two not-for-profit organizations in formation of for-profit subsidiaries.
Advice to owners of several similar businesses in various parts of the United States concerning merger of their existing operations and formation of a new company and subsequent sale of new company on favorable terms.
Representation of shareholders of a Colorado-based high technology company in connection with sale to public corporation in the United Kingdom.
Consultant for major Denver and national law firms in cases involving piercing the corporate veil, corporate opportunity, fiduciary duty of directors, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. Representation and counseling of officers and directors of publicly-held companies with respect to fiduciary duties and responsibilities and liabilities under securities acts.
Representation of group of privately-held affiliated corporations, some with significant environmental problems, in connection with acquisition by a public company.
Assisted association of business brokers in satisfying regulatory requirements and standardizing contractual agreements.
Management of workout by company with chain of family-style restaurants, including concessions by senior and subordinated debt holders that resulted in cancellation of 80% of existing secured debt.
General counsel for joint venture between Denver-based company and major oil company, including raising over $100,000,000 of new financing.
General counsel to an environmental insurance company, including financing, regulatory matters, reinsurance treaties, and design of new insurance products.
Local representation of several different Swedish clients (including national public utility, biotech company, and publishing company) in connection with business interests and disputes in the Rocky Mountain region.
General representation of the largest ethanol fuel distribution company in the Rocky Mountain area.
Designed and implemented complex plan for advancement of employees to ownership status and gradual buyout and retirement pay for current owners in several businesses.
Counsel to a Japanese purchaser with respect to the acquisition and subsequent operation and reorganization of a major Rocky Mountain ski resort.