Find Lawyers in Colorado, United States for Corporate Law
Practice Area Overview
Depending on the size of the market in which the lawyer practices and the size of the lawyer’s firm, he or she may be required to handle nearly all of a corporation’s legal matters. In larger firms, the Corporate lawyer with the principal client relationship will be expected to be familiar with all the issues the corporation is likely to confront, but may engage lawyers from other practice areas to assist in matters requiring special expertise, such as securities offerings, tax issues, and litigation.
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More than 20 years of deal experience handling bet-the-company transactions. Six years serving as managing partner and CEO of an AmLaw 200 firm. Strategic advisor to business executives. Adam Agron possesses the powerful combination of first-hand experience running a business and a noteworthy track record advising C-level executives and boards of directors. He leads private equity firms, public and private companies and entrepreneurs through mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, leveraged...
Betty leverages extensive corporate finance and M&A transactional experience to guide companies through the entire corporate lifecycle, from formation through growth and planned exit. Her clients include established and emerging growth companies as well as venture capital and other private equity funds. She works with clients in a variety of industries, including software, technology, telecommunications, analytics, medical devices, healthcare, fintech and manufacturing. Betty regularly ac...
Companies rely on Chris to guide them through complex mergers and acquisitions and domestic and international financing transactions of all sizes. His clients range in size from start-ups to publicly traded corporations with multi-billion dollar market capitalizations. Chris represents venture capital funds, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies in a variety of investment, financing, and strategic transactions. He also acts as outside general counsel to a number of companies adv...
Bryan focuses his practice on advising privately-held business and their owners with respect to mergers and acquisitions, entity formation and operation, sales, purchases and leasing of real estate, commercial real estate, private placements of securities, and wills, trusts and business succession planning. Bryan is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association.
Leslie provides strategic advice to developers of large infrastructure projects, with a focus on renewable power generation projects, energy storage projects, and oil and gas upstream and midstream facilities. Leslie negotiates the contracts required for every stage of a project’s life cycle, from development and construction through revenue generation and day-to-day operation. Her experience covers a wide range of complex development and commercial contracts, including engineering, pro...
Bill works in close partnership with clients in the affordable housing industry to implement creative equity and debt financing on projects in Colorado and around the country. Bill provides strategic legal solutions for affordable housing transactions and has represented clients on hundreds of low-income housing tax credit projects from Alaska to Florida. He also has substantial experience navigating New Markets Tax Credits, federal energy credits, and historic rehabilitation tax credit deals...
Education Mr. Coan received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration with honors from the University of Northern Colorado and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Denver. Admissions & Associations Mr. Coan is admitted to practice before all courts in the States of Arizona, Colorado and North Dakota. Mr. Coan currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Colorado Bar Association’s Business Law Section Council and is the Co-Chair of the Financial Instituti...
Chuck advises companies at all stages of growth, from start-ups to ready-to-exit, helping them successfully raise capital, complete acquisitions and divestitures, and comply with regulatory requirements. Chuck also regularly advises consumer products investment funds in investment rounds. Cultivate Growing Companies: Chuck helps investment funds and growth-oriented clients determine the best way to reach their personal and corporate objectives – from initial formation and financing, thr...
Tim brings sophisticated commercial finance expertise to advise a broad spectrum of lenders and borrowers. Specialized Commercial Lending: Tim counsels banks, finance companies, servicers, private equity sponsors, and company borrowers to structure, document, close, and secure commercial, asset-based, agricultural and real estate loans, equipment leases, factoring arrangements, and other financial accommodations. He also represents card issuers and companies to negotiate corporate credit card...
James advises entrepreneurs, operating companies, and private equity and venture capital investors in complex financial transactions. These transactions often take the form of mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and out-of-court restructurings. James has extensive experience in the cybersecurity and technology industry, as well as in the oil and gas, business and financial services, aviation, and gaming industries. James began his career at a major Wall Street law firm and h...
Trusted advisor to multiple ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Deeply engaged in public policy and fundraising for 25 years. Closed numerous multi-billion dollar deals. Steve is an irreplaceable asset to some of the highest profile owners, managers, investors and financiers in the nation. He has negotiated and advised on hundreds of deals over the course of his career, including several high-profile, politically contentious multi-billion-dollar transactions in energy and renewable energy, tele...
Mike provides comprehensive legal services to all types of clients, including emerging growth companies, publicly-traded companies, private companies, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and others, at every stage of the corporate life cycle. Mike excels at helping clients raise capital, complete acquisitions and divestitures, and close strategic transactions. His practice includes serving as outside general counsel to clients across multiple industries, with a focus in providing ser...
Stephanie provides transactional and strategic advice to companies engaged in the development, purchase, and sale of a broad variety of energy and infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on renewable and thermal generating projects and oil and gas pipelines and midstream facilities. Her extensive experience in the energy industry allows her to assist project sponsors in developing and negotiating their key project development contracts. She also assists her energy clients to structure and i...
As head of the corporate/securities practice, Julie Herzog handles a wide variety of corporate, securities and merger and acquisition transactions. She has handled transactions valued at over $4 billion for major public companies and investment banks and enjoys working with a diverse clientele ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to startups, family offices, and venture capital and private equity funds. Since 2013, Julie negotiated and closed over 100 transactions valued at over $1.5 billion...
Julian Izbiky is a seasoned and respected expert in business law and mergers and acquisitions. He has more than 40 years of experience helping clients start or buy businesses, operate, and eventually sell them. Throughout his career, he has managed numerous M&A transactions, varying in size from several hundred thousand dollars to tens of millions of dollars. Julian is passionate about helping business owners and takes pride in providing his services in the most efficient and cost-effecti...
Bob advises a wide variety of businesses and their owners, from start-up companies to publicly- traded corporations. He advises clients and acts as a consulting or testifying expert on matters of business organization, federal tax, and professional responsibility, at all stages of organizational life from the formation and capitalization of new businesses to the operation and growth of firms to the departure of owners and the dissolution and winding up of the organization. Bob has written and...
More than two decades facilitating successful business transactions. Respected dealmaker in health care industry. Dedicated firm and community leader. Mike King guides clients through their organization’s most pivotal moments. Handling the full range of public and private transactions from asset acquisitions and sales to joint ventures, securing financing to fund growth, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buy outs, Mike provides sophisticated counsel to close deals. Rounding out hi...
Herrick K. Lidstone, Jr. is a shareholder in the law firm of Burns Figa & Will PC, where he practices in the areas of business transactions, including taxation, limited liability company and corporate formation and organization, mergers and acquisitions, ethics, and securities. He has lectured at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, has been an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (1986-1997, 2012, and 2014 through 2017) and at the University of Colorado...
Tom regularly counsels clients in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and complex joint ventures to private equity funds, strategic acquirors, and private sellers operating in several industries, including health care, consumer products, telecommunications, business services, technology and leisure and hospitality. He is also experienced in representing companies and investors in preferred equity, convertible debt, and private placement transactions, as well as lenders and borrowers in levera...
Seasoned, practical, solution-oriented dealmaker. Twenty years of experience closing hundreds of deals with clients ranging from sophisticated private equity buyers to individual owner/entrepreneur sellers. Serves as outside general counsel to leading middle market companies. Gino Maurelli’s middle market M&A and private equity practice spans four decades. Closing deals on the buy and sell side amid both bull and bear markets, he understands how to navigate different environments to...
Focusing on project development and finance in the energy and resources industries, Billi delivers strategic counsel and pragmatic solutions to her clients. For over 20 years, she has focused her practice on infrastructure development, complex debt financing, and strategic transactions. Billi primarily represents project developers. Billi’s experience is strongly focused in the energy and resources industries. She has particular knowledge counseling renewable energy clients, including d...
Peter Moore is the Chairman of the Business Law Department and a member of the real estate practice group for Robinson, Waters and O’Dorisio. He serves as outside general counsel and corporate counsel for many local and regional businesses. Twenty years of experience as a commercial trial lawyer provides Peter with a unique perspective on his business practice and aids in his ability to structure deals and transactions in a way to minimize risk, avoid litigation, and efficiently achieve...
Sue skillfully navigates M&A transactions and equity financings, finding solutions to ensure her client’s goals are met. With both law firm and corporate management experience, she understands that managing internal constituencies – from the executive team to the board of directors to investors to employees – can be as important to the deal process as negotiating with the other side. Sue and her team focus on mid-market deals, typically ranging from $25 million to $2 bil...
Orchestrated first online gaming deals. Excels in structuring complex commercial arrangements. Trailblazer in the growing sports betting industry. At the forefront of online gaming, Elizabeth Paulsen was the architect behind some of the first access arrangements in the United States. She is recognized as a top sports betting and online gaming attorney and represents the major players in the industry. Elizabeth continues to be a pioneer in the online gaming industry, becoming one the few attor...
Steve works with clients on a broad range of business and transactional matters, including buy-and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and other equity and debt financing, operating agreements, technology transactions, joint ventures, vendor and customer contracts and securities law compliance. He brings a hands-on, experience-based approach tailored to achieving each client’s specific business objectives. Steve also serves as outside general counsel and strategic advise...
When public and private companies need clear, pragmatic counsel on finance transactions, business combinations, corporate governance, or disclosure questions, they turn to Lucy. Lucy’s wide-ranging transactional practice includes debt and equity capital markets deals, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public and private securities offerings, and exchange offers. She also advises clients regarding disclosure issues and corporate governance, including SEC reporting, board and comm...
Jon is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Environmental practice groups, joining Senn Visciano Canges in 2016. Prior to joining the firm, he was a shareholder at both Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, where he served on the Executive Committee, and Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C., where he was chair of the Business Department and served as Chief Executive Officer of that firm for seven years. Jon serves as outside general counsel for many clients, including a grocery chain, a casino, a food bro...
Ashley provides sophisticated legal guidance to clients in the solar, battery storage, wind, hydropower, and natural gas industries as they develop, buy, and sell projects and related infrastructure across the United States. She assists her clients at all stages of project development and finance, from site acquisition through commercial operation, with particular emphasis on power purchase agreements and construction contracts. She also counsels clients in the buying and selling of projects ...
Name Partner Edward D. "Ted" White is Moye White's Managing Partner, a member of the firm's Management Committee, and Co-Chair of the firm’s Advanced Energy Group. Ted’s practice focuses on corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, and financings. As a strategic partner, Ted helps clients discern opportunities and make strategic connections that add business value. He has specific experience with private capital funds and takes a leadership role in fund formation an...
Mark draws on 35 years in the practice of law to support and advocate for the business interests and legal rights of clients – large national and international corporations, regional interests, middle market, small, and entrepreneurial ventures – in wide ranging litigation, general business, and transactional matters. He serves as trial counsel and advisor on large dollar, corporate governance, officer and director liability, business tort, commercial, financial institutions, and ...
Mike Williams joined Senn Visciano Canges in 2013 as a Director. He has been practicing law for thirty years, the majority of which was with an old-line Denver firm. Mike’s practice is, in some fashion, connected to real estate. This includes extensive experience in commercial leasing and tenant relations, acquisition and disposition of office, industrial, retail and multi-family properties, representing real estate professionals in disputes before their boards or in litigation, and adv...
Chris assists clients on complex domestic and international business transactions and projects, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and the development of large infrastructure projects. He has extensive experience in the energy industry and represents clients in the full life cycle of energy projects, from early-stage development and construction to revenue generation, day-to-day operation, and acquisition or divestiture. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Chris served as an associate ...
Nate advises clients through the various stages of the corporate life cycle from entity selection and formation to financing and capitalization, corporate reorganization, and a variety of merger and acquisition transactions. His experience includes working with clients of all sizes from early stage start-ups to large public companies. In addition to his summer clerkship with Holland & Hart, Nate previously worked in the hospitality and food and beverage industries as an account executive ...
Holly applies a business-minded approach to advise clients at all stages of growth with their legal needs. Holly has experience working with companies on venture financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, commercial agreements, and entity formation and conversion processes. She works with a broad range of clients including strategic buyers, venture funds, and emerging and established brands in the food, beverage, and consumer product goods and technology spaces. Before ...
As an attorney in the Business Section, Yassi has experience drafting and reviewing contracts and business documents for clients, corporate governance matters, entity formation, and sale and acquisition of business interests. Before joining Moye White, Yassi worked at a Denver-area law firm and focused on business and corporate law, estate planning, estate and trust administration, and Medicaid planning. Additionally, she has experience working for the Denver City Attorney’s Office, as ...
Ms. Huston focuses her law practice on corporate and commercial real estate matters. She specializes in large-scale purchase and sale and commercial leasing transactions with respect to a variety of property types, as well as a broad range of matters spanning the life cycle of multi-phased real estate projects, including complex zoning, land use and planning, development, entitlement, infrastructure design and construction, title and survey review, and regularity matters. She advises corporat...
As the head cannabis licensing practice attorney for Fortis Law Partners, Alyson Jaen specializes in cannabis law, licensing and regulatory compliance as well as general corporate and business law. Alyson advises clients on cannabis licensing and regulatory compliance matters, including representation before the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, and other local regulatory agencies. Alyson is committed to compliance and is an expert in many ...
Stu counsels clients operating in the cannabis industry on licensing, regulatory compliance, and enforcement matters. Stu provides legal assistance to clients with cannabis and cannabis-related business operations. He helps cannabis clients, large and small, navigate the ever-changing state and local regulatory requirements to obtain licenses and become and remain compliant and operational. Stu has established strong working relationships with a range of industry and regulatory stakeholders t...
Corporate finance attorney with more than a decade of experience. Focuses on leveraged finance, debt capital markets and fund finance. Brendan Leanos represents financial institutions, direct lenders and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in lending transactions, with experience representing both lenders and borrowers in senior secured loans, second lien and mezzanine loans, and unsecured loans. His expertise also includes advising middle market companies and private equity fu...
Charles counsels clients on a broad range of complex commercial real estate matters including the acquisition, disposition, financing, development, and leasing of commercial properties. His background includes representing owners, developers, investors, financial institutions, landlords, tenants, and utility providers on various real estate projects across the country. Charles’ experience includes counseling clients with the acquisition and disposition of office buildings, apartments, h...
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