Doug's practice in business and corporate services emphasizes securities transactions, financings and mergers and acquisitions for a broad range of industries. These include telecommunications, manufacturing, transportation, technology, gaming, oil and gas, and mining. He has represented companies at all stages of their development, with an emphasis on emerging growth businesses.

Doug's securities experience includes representation of issuers and underwriters in initial and secondary public offerings, Rule 144A and other private placements, public debt offerings, and public exchange offers and tender offers. As securities counsel to numerous exchange listed and Nasdaq traded companies, he reviews filings and addresses compliance issues with the Securities and Exchange Commission and provides corporate governance advice to their boards of directors.

Doug represents buyers and sellers in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions (both public and private companies). He has represented a large public investment fund and a private foundation in connection with their domestic and international private equity investments. In addition, his experience includes counseling clients in joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies. Doug also routinely provides general corporate advice to clients on a variety of issues including corporate disclosure issues, employee compensation issues, credit agreement negotiations and general contract issues.

Doug's experience includes:

• Representation of Frontier Airlines from its inception in 1994 through initial rounds of financing, its initial public offering and subsequent financings, as well as corporate and securities representation involving, among other things, review of securities filings and corporate compliance and governance issues
• Representation of a public telecommunications company in securities filings and corporate governance matters and over $4 billion of public offerings, acquisitions and debt financings  
• Representation of a telecommunications company in negotiation of public-private partnership agreements with state departments of transportation and fiber optic lease and IRU agreements with customers, sales of private equity and debt and equipment financing arrangements
• Representation of a publicly traded healthcare information services company in a $294 million sale to a private equity firm and a public medical products company in a competitively auctioned sale to a national medical products firm
• Negotiation of over $3 billion of private equity investments for a state public employees' retirement fund
• Assisting a software company in structuring and negotiating its domestic and international distribution and licensing agreements and other technology agreements

Honors

• Denver Best Lawyers — Corporate Lawyer of the Year, 2011
• The Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities Law, 2006–12
• Super Lawyers — Securities & Corporate Finance, 2006–12
• Law Week Colorado — Best M&A Lawyer, 2009
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business — Corporate/M&A, 2005–11
• Corporate Counsel Black Book — 2007–08
• Denver Business Journal — Best of the Bar Award for Corporate, M&A and Securities, 2003

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