Practice Areas & Industries: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The attorneys in the commercial law and securities practice group of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) collectively have experience in virtually every aspect of commercial law and securities practice. Serving clients from offices in Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and London, our lawyers are involved in local, national and international business transactions. We represent hundreds of businesses, ranging from large international public companies to smaller private firms. Our experience encompasses a broad range of industries in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific regions and nationally, including transportation, energy, retail, telecommunications, biotechnology, banking, data storage and gaming. Our clients include Adolph Coors Company, Graphic Packaging Corp., CompleTel Europe N.V., The Anschutz Corporation, Wells Fargo West, N.A., Qwest Communications International Inc., UnitedGlobalCOM, United Pan-Europe Communications, N.V., Signal Soft, TV Guide Inc. and Wild Oats Markets, Inc.

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Securities Law

Securities law practitioners at HRO engage in a wide variety of matters for a diverse set of clients. We act as issuer's and underwriter's counsel in public offerings of common stock, preferred stock, debt, limited partnership interests and other securities. These offerings occur in many contexts, including initial public offerings (IPOs) and in connection with mergers, acquisitions, exchange offers, tender offers and consolidations.

Lawyers in the firm have substantial experience in the preparation of registration statements and prospectuses and private placement and other disclosure documents. We have represented issuers in underwritten equity offerings and in Rule 144A offerings of corporate debt and their related exchange offers. We have considerable experience with joint listings on various European and United States exchanges.

Securities attorneys in the firm also handle compliance matters for publicly held companies (review and preparation of Forms 10-K and 10-Q, annual reports, proxy statements, Section 13 and 16 filings) and counsel clients regarding disclosure. We have also dealt with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in connection with securities listings and other matters, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in connection with financing compliance, and state securities ("blue sky") commissioners in connection with state securities registration matters.

Our firm has also been extensively involved in merger and acquisition transactions, large and small, many of which involved securities issuances. For example, we represented Southern Pacific Railroad Corporation in a merger that resulted in the creation of the largest railroad in the United States; the shareholders of The Gates Corporation in its acquisition by Tomkins PLC, and Graphic Packaging in their acquisition of Ft. James folding container division.

Our commercial law attorneys have represented public and private clients in bank and other financings, corporate restructurings, strategic planning and formations of corporations, partnerships and other entities. We also have represented clients in relationships with governmental entities, employment relationships, franchising, commercial transactions and all other aspects of business law.

The firm emphasizes representation of emerging companies in the high technology area and smaller companies in other promising areas of business. A multi-dimensional team provides skill and experience in areas of particular importance to growing companies, such as financing and protecting and developing intellectual property.