Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck was founded in 1968. Since then, it has expanded to 13 offices in in seven states.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm is top tier in Nevada in M&A and also highly regard in Colorado for its work in the financial and corporate practice areas. Key partners include Nicole Ament who is the chair of the real estate practice.
Though the firm does outstanding work in Nevada and Colorado, it also maintains teams in Washington DC, California, Wyoming, New Jersey and New Mexico.
In Colorado, the firm does great work in banking and finance, real estate and M&A. The banking and finance team represents borrowers in project financing, capital markets investments and securitizations.
The real estate team represents property developers and investors in commercial and residential real estate development and acquisition transactions.
The M&A team represents private equity and strategic buyers and sellers in acquisition and joint venture related acquisitions.
Key clients
Key clients for the firm include Blue & Silver, Etkin Johnson Real Estate Partners, Brue Capital, the Colorado Rockies, Bow River Capital Partners, Nexus Technologies, Caesars Entertainment, AmTrans Expedite and Encore Consumer Capital.
Research period review: 30th edition (2019/2020)
Over the research period the banking team advised borrowers, many of whom were private equity clients in confidential financing matters.
The M&A team continued to represent mostly strategic buyers and sellers in acquisition related matters. It also worked with private equity firms on M&A agreements.
The real estate team continued to represent developers and investors regarding commercial and residential real estate development projects in Colorado, largely in Denver.
In terms of lateral movements, real estate partner Ana Tenzer left for Hogan Lovells, real estate partner Noelle Riccardella left for Williams Weese Pepple & Ferguson and real estate of counsel left for Otten Johnson. In the corporate practice area, partner Darryl Landahl was brought over after serving in-house. Partner Christopher Reiss left for Polsinelli. In banking and finance, of counsel Jason Larkin was brought over from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and partner Mark Oveson left to become a software engineer.
Deal highlights: 30th edition (2019/2020)
Colorado Rockies $300 million mixed use entertainment district project
Nexus Technologies acquisition of Notonsite
