Haynes and Boone, LLP today proudly announces the opening of a Denver office and the addition of two new partners, well-known midstream and pipeline practitioner Anne Weber and Alan Talesnick, who focuses his practice on securities and corporate matters.

They will be joined by two Houston-based Haynes and Boone lawyers with significant Denver contacts — Partner Patrick L. Hughes and Counsel Robert Thibault — with the ultimate goal of establishing a substantial presence to serve the Denver business community, said firm Managing Partner Tim Powers.
“Haynes and Boone has a long history of working with clients and contacts in the greater Denver area, so establishing a physical presence in Denver is a natural way to build upon those relationships and reach out to important constituents in the region,” Powers said. More >>

As part of its western expansion initiative, Armstrong Teasdale LLP is adding 10 lawyers to open a Denver office on October 1, 2014. The attorneys are all formerly of Denver-based Steese Roberts & Frankel P.C. Their addition complements Armstrong Teasdale’s core strengths and expands its national capabilities in intellectual property, telecommunications, white-collar crime and internal investigations. The move will also create synergies between the Denver location and the firm’s established Las Vegas and Kansas City offices. More >>

Miller Thomson, along with two American firms and a Canadian firm, are advising on a USD 6 billion oil and gas merger that will create the largest producer in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale formation.

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Faegre Baker Daniels represented The Spectranetics Corporation, a Colorado Springs-based medical device company, in acquiring AngioScore Inc. in a $230 million cash purchase, along with contingent commercial and regulatory milestone payments. The transaction closed June 30, and was funded with the proceeds from a $230 million public offering of convertible notes.
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Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the largest workplace law firms in the world representing management, is pleased to announce the formation of its White Collar & Government Enforcement Practice Group.  This new practice group will counsel corporations, institutions, business executives and other professionals facing federal or state investigations and enforcement actions.  In addition, the firm also announced that former Assistant U.S. Attorney James M. Lord has joined its Denver office as Partner.  Mr. Lord brings to Jackson Lewis many years of experience as a federal prosecutor and will be an integral part of the new practice group.

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Craig Richardson has returned to the international law firm Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the Litigation practice group. He had been general counsel of El Paso Corporation’s Pipeline Group, the largest network of natural gas pipelines in North America, for the past 10 years. Richardson will be based in the firm’s Denver office.

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Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck continues to expand its intellectual property team with the addition of S. Craig Hemenway as a shareholder plus 12 members of his team. With a deep background in both patent law and engineering, Hemenway and his team will counsel clients on many aspects of intellectual property from identification, protection and management of intellectual property assets to preparing and prosecuting patent applications, enforcing intellectual property rights through litigation and providing infringement and patentability opinions. Hemenway was previously a partner at Dorsey & Whitney where he led the Denver patent group.

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Sherman & Howard L.L.C., a national law firm headquartered in the Rocky Mountain region  announced the addition of attorney R. Michael Shomo as a member in its Denver office.  Mr. Shomo was formerly at Archstone, a developer, owner and operator of multifamily properties on the east and west coasts where was the Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel.  He joined Archstone in 2006.

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Kutak Rock LLP, a national law firm with a large office in Denver, recently added nine lateral attorneys to the corporate group. Six of those attorneys joined from the boutique transactional law firm, Krendl, Krendl, Sachnoff & Way, P.C. and bring the total number of attorneys in the Denver office to 82.

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