Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

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Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) has a tradition of building lasting relationships with entrepreneurial pioneers, from railroads and mining, to oil and gas, and more recently technology and telecommunications. For more than 100 years, HRO has provided clients with the resources and capabilities to address their legal concerns. Approximately 265 lawyers at HRO serve clients in the United States and abroad from nine offices in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Francisco, Los Angeles, California; London and Munich. Whether a client is an individual or part of a corporation, partnership or other business entity, HRO can provide legal counsel to fit the client's needs. Nearly half of HRO's lawyers represent clients in lawsuits, administrative proceedings and other means of resolving disputes. Notably, HRO is internationally-recognized for its corporate and litigation practices and is the only Denver-based firm with an international office in London. Lawyers from the corporate, securities, emerging growth, tax, banking, finance, bankruptcy and real estate practice groups assist large and small entities in both routine and extraordinary aspects of their businesses. Because business today is transacted in a global marketplace, HRO lawyers also advise United States-based and foreign companies on business transactions domestically and abroad.

Bankruptcy, Banks and Banking, Business Law, Civil Practice, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Commercial Real Estate, Communications and Media, Computers and Software, Construction Law, Copyrights, Corporate Law, Debtor and Creditor, Education Law, Emerging Growth, Employee Benefits, Environmental Law, Finance, Health Care, Intellectual Property, International Law, Labor and Employment, Leases and Leasing, Litigation, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Natural Resources, Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations, Patents, Products Liability, Real Estate, Religious Institutions, Securities, Sports Law, Taxation, Technology and Science, Toxic Torts, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Trusts and Estates, Water Law.

IRS Touts a Significant Win in a Recent Son of Boss Tax Shelter Case: Stobie Creek Investments LLC et al. v. United States
Michelle Ferreira, David B. Strong, August 28, 2008
On July 31, 2008, the United States Court of Federal Claims found Stobie Creek Investments LLC to be a Son of Boss tax shelter which was created to avoid tax on $204 illion in capital gain realized on the sale of a family's business.

A Guaranty by a "True Guarantor" May Be Enforced Following Foreclosure
Scott D. Rogers, July 22, 2008
In Talbott v. Hustwit, 2008 DJDAR 9342 (June 20, 2008), two individual guarantors attempted to avoid their obligation for the deficiency (difference between amount owed and amount bid at sale) following a power of sale foreclosure by arguing that they were not "true guarantors" and, thus,...

Tax Shelter Penalties and the Hippocratic Oath
Michelle Ferreira, March 14, 2008
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced that tax fraud in the medical and healthcare professions continued to be an area of emphasis by the Service, particularly as it involves doctors, dentists, and chiropractors who have participated in "abusive tax avoidance...

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