Member

Representative Matters

• Represented several cable television providers, including the largest in the U.S., on various business and transactional matters, including the acquisition, sale and contribution of cable television assets in excess of $9 billion in value; the acquisition of enterprise-level software solutions, including 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.
• General outside counsel for Colorado-based provider of telecommunications services; responsible for strategic operational matters, including vendor agreements, strategic customer agreements, consumer transactions, coordination of litigation and information technology.
• Represented issuers in multiple private equity placements, including $20 million roll-up of specialty construction contractors, two-stage funding of startup medical device manufacture, and funding of several ambulatory surgery centers.
• Outside procurement counsel for Fortune 500 telecommunications company.
• General outside counsel for one of the largest Colorado-based civil engineering firms; responsible for coordination of strategic business transactions, corporate services and litigation coordination.
• Outside equipment leasing counsel to construction services clients.

Professional Activities

• Admitted Colorado, 1992
• Manager, Sherman & Howard L.L.C. Business Department

Publications and Presentations

• Qualifying to do Business in Colorado, This chapter on Colorado is included in BNA's Corporate Practice Series Portfolio No. 84, Doing Business in States Other Than the State of Incorporation (Alabama Through Michigan), and is reproduced here with permission from BNA. Copyright 2006 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com
• Colorado Methods of Practice; Author of updates to chapters initially composed by retired Sherman & Howard attorney Andrew L. Blair, Jr.:
  • Chapter 80, "The Uniform Commercial Code" - Article 1 - Introduction
  • Chapter 81, "The Uniform Commercial Code" - Article 2 - Sales
  • Chapter 82, "The Uniform Commercial Code" - Article 2.5 - Leases

Education

• Juris Doctor, University of Colorado School of Law, 1992
  • Order of the Coif
  • Member and Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Colorado, 1984