We are involved with our clients in all phases of the business lifecycle, including:

• "Seed" or start-up
• Phase II planning and financings
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Private and public offerings of common and preferred equity and debt
• Intellectual property examination and protection
• Tax structuring
• International trade
• Regulatory affairs

We focus upon satisfying client needs by listening and providing creative solutions to complex issues such as:

• Settling noncompetition agreements with the prior employers of key employees
• Forming new Colorado, Delaware, or Nevada business entities
• Advice regarding the business plan or securities placement memorandum
• Negotiating financing documents
  • Stock purchase
  • Preferred terms
  • Investors' rights
  • Stockholders
  • Nondisclosure
  • Stock option
  • Employment agreements
• Assisting in the acquisition of intellectual property through assignments and licenses
• Registering marks and copyrights
• Negotiating strategic alliances
• Managing infringement litigation
• Preparing IPO or merger documents

Our representation of technology businesses and financing entities in transactions throughout the states of the Plains, Pacific Coast, and Rocky Mountain Region has provided us with a large reservoir of experience in the converging industries of the following:

• Hardware, software, e-commerce and telecommunications
• Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices and human health
• Agriculture, brewing, food stocks and processing, and
• Bioremediation, liquid and solid waste, and environmental management

We have useful relationships with economic development professionals at the state and local level. We also have significant and successful experience with business incubators and in negotiating research and development and technology transfer agreements for businesses with universities, federal laboratories, and “think tanks” throughout the United States.