• Serving as one of the senior lead outside counsels for transactional matters, including M&As, for a Fortune 250 telecommunications company.
• Handled the divestiture of a private equity-sponsored partnership in a $3.1 billion equity exchange.
• Represented a strategic partner in a three-party stock and asset exchange of telecommunications properties with an aggregate value exceeding $2.0 billion.
• Advised the seller in a divestiture of $1.8 billion in cable television assets in a series of several related tax-efficient transactions.
• Represented a strategic buyer in the acquisition of a telecommunications company in a stock acquisition valued at over $1.6 billion.
• Advised a private equity-sponsored seller in the divestiture of a veterinary health product distributor in a public company merger with a value of $1.1 billion.
• Represented management in a private equity-sponsored acquisition of a competitor in a going-private transaction involving significant antitrust risk.
• Represented cable television providers on various business and transactional matters, including the acquisition, sale, and contribution of cable television assets representing millions of customers and thousands of local franchises, nationwide; the acquisition of enterprise-level software solutions, with overall responsibility for licensing software and content for advanced set-top converters; local government relations in connection with franchise negotiations; equipment procurement; and consumer privacy issues.
• Serving as corporate and M&A counsel for a Colorado-based energy exploration and production company in connection with upstream and midstream activities, as well as strategic corporate matters.
• Represented issuers in multiple private equity placements, including $300 million in various equity financings for the acquisition of oil and gas properties, $20 million roll-up of specialty construction contractors, two-stage funding of a startup medical device manufacture, and funding of several ambulatory surgery centers.
• Structured and documented nonprofit healthcare affiliations, having represented both the network and the affiliates.
• Provided nonprofit governance advice to diverse entities with wide-ranging business and charitable missions, including a ski resort operator, a national liberal arts college, and a $2 billion private foundation.
• Advised clients on high-value and strategic intellectual property and information technology transactions, including:
  • The acquisition of strategic cloud-based business operations systems designed to manage more than $5 billion in annual revenue.
  • A comprehensive product and patent license for interactive programming guide technology with a potential value of well over $100 million.
  • A $5 billion licensing and equity transaction for consumer electronics middleware.
  • Hosting agreements for outsourced billing services generating annual fees of over $50 million.
  • Data sequestration agreements under which all communications of the company’s senior-most officers would be encrypted and sequestered for future retrieval.
  • A mission-critical membership portal for Olympic movement sports federation.

PUBLICATIONS

• Essential Workers Exempt from Stay Home Orders
  Sherman & Howard Corporate & Transactional Advisory | March 26, 2020
• Qualifying to do Business in Colorado
  Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.: Corporate Practice Series Portfolio No. 84, Doing Business in States Other Than the State of Incorporation (Alabama Through Michigan) | 2016

PRESENTATIONS

• Structuring Development Entities
  Annual Colorado Construction Seminar | March 2020
• Intracompany Arrangements 
  Construction Seminar | March 2019
• Choice of Business Entity for Construction Projects
  Construction Seminar | February 2018
• Contract Definitions and Boilerplate: Hidden Challenges and Opportunities
  Business & Corporate Law Presentation | June 2017
• Sourcing Information Technology For Your Business Enterprise
  Denver Business & Corporate Law Presentation | June 2016

• Board of Directors, University of Colorado Law Alumni Board

• Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law (2020)
• BTI Client Service, “All-Stars” (2016)
• Super Lawyers (2012-2013)