On February 20, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted a motion for summary judgment dismissing a trademark infringement case against Faegre Baker Daniels LLP client Amazon.com. Marc Levy and Katie Feiereisel led the firm’s representation of Amazon.

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Scot Anderson and David Brody were hired for the energy practice group of Hogan Lovells in Denver.  The recruitment represents continued growth of the firm’s energy presence in the area.

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Hogan Lovells today announced the addition of Scot Anderson as a partner and David Brody as of counsel in the Energy and Natural Resources practice in the Denver office. Anderson joins from Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP and Brody arrives from Patton Boggs LLP.

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Michael K. Bolton, a nationally known transactional oil and gas lawyer from the Houston, Texas market has moved his energy practice to Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.

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Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce that Michelle Duncan has joined the firm’s Denver office as Partner. She brings to Jackson Lewis over 13 years of experience in the labor and employment field, with a particular emphasis on OFCCP, OSHA and Wage and Hour litigation.

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Ronda Sandquist, a well known environmental and natural resources attorney, has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a shareholder and will bolster its nationally recognized Natural Resources Department.

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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Trygve Kjellsen has joined the Corporate Group in the Firm’s Denver office as a Partner. Mr. Kjellsen’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures. He counsels public company clients on corporate governance, securities — including Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and stock exchange listing requirements — and general corporate matters. Mr. Kjellsen advises foreign clients in connection with their private equity investments in, or acquisitions of, companies in the United States. Previously, Mr. Kjellsen was a partner with Faegre Baker Daniels. He received a B.S. from Truman State University and a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law.

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Lathrop & Gage LLP announced today that Todd R. Seelman has joined the firm as a partner. He will concentrate his practice on labor and employment and antitrust, and will be located in the firm’s Denver office. Seelman will co-chair Lathrop & Gage’s antitrust practice group.

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The State of Michigan began borrowing money from the Federal Unemployment Trust Fund Account for its unemployed workforce in 2006, earlier than any other state in the nation. For the first few years Michigan was able to keep up with the loan payments, but when the economic recession hit, its repayments and interest increased too quickly for the state to pay them.

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Using a master trust structure for real estate transactions pioneered by Kutak Rock LLP in 2005, a team of Denver attorneys recently acted as issuer’s counsel to STORE Capital Corporation, a private REIT, in connection with the issuance by its subsidiary, STORE Master Funding I LLC, of $229.5 million net lease mortgage notes. The STORE subsidiary is a bankruptcy remote, special purpose financing entity. The notes were rated A (sf) and BBB (sf) by Standard & Poor’s and purchased by institutional investors. The collateral for these notes consisted of 132 commercial real estate properties across various industry sectors, including related rents due under triple-net leases with the properties’ tenants. The master trust structure permits additional collateral to be added to the pool at a later date and also the issuance of additional notes in the future secured by the larger collateral pool.

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