Member

Representative Matters

• General corporate advice to corporate clients, including entity formation, maintenance and mergers, partnership and joint venture matters, shareholder and related agreements, phantom stock plans and other incentive programs.
• Negotiation and documentation of agreement to provide services of sports marketing company and athletes to start-up companies in exchange for equity interests.
• Formation of airline fuel consortia at Boston International Airport, San Jose International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
• Issuance of tax-exempt bonds to finance fuel system construction at Boston International Airport in the amount of $107 million; at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the amount of $100 million; and at San Francisco International Airport in the amount of $125 million.
• Issuance of $27 million Senior Notes to finance fuel system construction at San Jose International Airport.
• $90 million asset-based bank financing for manufacturing company.
• €80 million syndicated secured bank facility for European borrower group of chemical manufacturer.
• €285 million high-yield bond offering for European chemical manufacturer.
• Aggregated $170 million secured bank financing for manufacturing company and foreign subsidiary.
• $1.1 billion syndicated secured financing for Argentinean cable company.
• $437.5 million public senior secured and discount notes offerings.
• Standby letter of credit facilities and interest rate swap agreements.
• DM 1.6 billion ($900 million +) syndicated multi-country (Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Norway, France, Canada, United States) financing.
• Negotiation of $80 million acquisition of architecture firm.
• Negotiation of acquisitions of engineering services firms, values ranging from $5 million to $90 million.
• Counsel for media company acquisitions totaling almost $800 million.
• Negotiation of $2 billion cable system exchange agreement.
• United States counsel for Australian mining company's acquisition of Nevada gold mine from Canadian company. Negotiation and documentation of venture capital investments.
• Negotiation of joint venture agreement with United Kingdom company to operate $350 million plant.

Education

• Juris Doctor, Stanford Law School, 1979
  • Founder and President, Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Finance), magna cum laude, University of Colorado, 1976

Honors and Awards

• Colorado Bar Fellow, Colorado Bar Foundation
• Listed in Colorado Super Lawyers, 2010
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Structed Finance Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Boettcher Scholar
• Outstanding Business Student
• Wall Street Journal Award