PRACTICE AREAS

Corporate Finance and Securities

Corporate Law

Franchising and Distribution

Mergers and Acquisitions

Michael A. Sabian, who has 40 years experience, is a Harvard law graduate who advises businesses in multiple areas of operation including the initial organization of an entity, structuring relationships between owners, equity and debt financing, contract, mergers and acquisitions, and in some cases, liquidation and dissolution.

Mr. Sabian has expertise representing clients engaged in a broad range of industries including investment advising, hedge funds, other financial services, food and beverages and air cargo handling. He is frequently asked to write on business matters and serves on the Planning Committee, Business Law Institute, sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association CLE and the Legislative Drafting Committee of the Business Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association.

DISTINCTIONS

Honored as a "Super Lawyer" in Colorado Super Lawyer magazine (2006-2009). Only 5% of lawyers in the state of Colorado receive this honor.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (1993-2009).

Corporate Counsel Black Book (Securities Law and Securities Offerings) (2007).

Planning Committee, 2001-07 Business Law Institute, sponsored by Colorado CLE.

In 2002, lectured on revising statutory provisions in Colorado that deal with derivative actions in corporations.

Editor, "Business Organizations," Annual Survey of Colorado Law (1990-98).

Has also lectured extensively for:

Continuing Legal Education in Colorado

Continuing Legal Education International

Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants

International Association of Corporation Administrators

COMMUNITY AND BAR INVOLVEMENT

Colorado Bar Association, Past member, Board of Governors

Health Law Section, Past Chair, Business Law and Judiciary Sections

Colorado Bar Foundation

Advisory Committee to Colorado Secretary of State (1983-95)

American Health Lawyers Association

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Partnerships, The Practitioner's Guide to Colorado Business Organizations

February 1996

Partnership Status of Joint Ventures in Colorado

The Colorado Lawyer

October 1996

Choice of Entity in Colorado, An Update

The Colorado Lawyer

EDUCATION

LL.B., Harvard University, 1968

A.B., with high honors, University of Rochester, 1963, Phi Beta Kappa

BAR ADMISSIONS

Colorado, 1968