Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP

For the last 90 years, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP has ranked among the region's most prominent law firms, consistently offering quality legal services to emerging and established businesses of the Rocky Mountain West. The firm enjoys a strong national reputation for its complex litigation and finance practices, with particular emphasis on counseling, transactions and commercial litigation for public and private companies in natural resource industries.

With 120 lawyers and 125 support staff, Davis Graham & Stubbs offers its clients expertise in a broad range of legal areas encountered by major business enterprises, including antitrust, appeals, brownfields, commercial litigation, corporate finance, employee benefits, employment law, environmental law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, products liability, public lands, real estate, taxation, and technology law. A large number of the firm's lawyers have extensive experience working with companies in the coal, coalbed methane, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries.

Many of our lawyers are recognized as leaders in their areas of expertise - more than 40% of our partners have been acknowledged in Best Lawyers in America 2008, and DGS ranks first in the number of Colorado-based attorneys listed in the Commercial Litigation, Natural Resources, Environmental Law, and Corporate Governance and Compliance Law practice areas. Davis Graham & Stubbs has been consistently ranked as a leading Colorado firm in corporate, mergers & acquisitions, employment defense, commercial litigation, and real estate matters by Chambers & Partners in their annual client guides. Davis Graham & Stubbs was also selected by corporate directors as the top law firm in Denver in Corporate Board Member magazine's sixth annual Legal Industry Research Study.

Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP represents a wide range of domestic and international businesses, ranging from high tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. The firm's clients include locally or regionally headquartered organizations such as RE/MAX International, the Northern Ute Tribe, Red Robin Restaurants and HCA HealthONE. Others, such as BP, General Electric, Union Pacific Railroad, AngloGold Ashanti North America, PDVSA (the national oil company of Venezuela), Microsoft and Lovell Minnick Partners are headquartered at a distance, but come to DGS for its unique expertise.

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Heather L. Kenney, August 12, 2009
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Sam Niebrugge, August 4, 2009
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