Holland & Hart LLP

Holland & Hart combines years of experience to provide client-focused legal services in the fast-growing and evolving cleantech industry. Our attorneys work with clients to create and maintain successful businesses strategies while reducing inputs, energy consumption, waste, or pollution. Holland & Hart counsels clients in virtually all stages of development and handles projects from inception to completion.

With 15 offices throughout Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and in Washington, D.C., our attorneys work within our network of regional offices to help clients across the country. We combine experience in traditional energy, renewable energy, emerging companies, corporate transactions, project development and finance, and intellectual property to provide multi-faceted legal advice to cleantech clients.

Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Holland & Hart takes a multi-disciplinary approach to meet the diverse needs of our cleantech clients. As the industry expands and the competition intensifies, attorneys from many of the firm's practice groups collaborate to  helps cleantech clients by providing "one-stop shopping" for virtually all of their legal needs, including in the following areas:

Venture Capital and Private Equity

• Structuring Debt and Equity Capital
• Traditional Private Placements of Securities
• Private Investments in Public Company (PIPE) Transactions
• Advice on Various Financing Alternatives

Corporate Transactions

• Capital Markets Transactions
• Employment / Executive Contracts
• Exit Strategy Planning
• Entity Formation and Structure
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Joint Venture Formation and Structure

Technology Acquisition, Protection and Enforcement

• Patent Prosecution and Enforcement
• Trademark Prosecution and Enforcement
• IP Audits and Due Diligence
• Technology Transfer and Licensing
• Project Development and Finance
• Real Property and Land Use
• Environmental Regulation and Permitting
• Water Rights and Water Supply
• State, Regional, and Federal Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Requirements
• Financing Structuring and Documentation
• Tax Credits / Monetization
• Equipment Lending

Securities

• Federal Securities Law Compliance
• Listing of Securities
• Corporate Governance
• Public Offerings
• Blue Sky Laws

Tax

• Federal, State and Local Tax Issues
• Tax Planning

Additional Services

• Climate Change
• Regulatory Compliance and Proceedings
• Legislative Affairs and Lobbying at the Federal, State and Local Level
• Litigation
• Employee Benefits
• Government Contracting
• Bioscience

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.