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Mr. King is a Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Based in the Denver office, he works with the firm’s Corporate & Business, Finance and Real Estate groups and serves as co-chair of the firm's Professional Development Committee. Mr. King has a broad business transactional practice with special emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, lending finance, securities offerings and general corporate matters. His mergers and acquisitions experience includes a range of public and private transactions, including leveraged buyouts, asset acquisitions and sales, and joint ventures. His securities experience includes representing U.S. and international issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt, including 144A transactions. Mr. King has served as lead counsel to private equity funds in the acquisition of platform companies and assets across a broad range of industries, including services, franchises, energy, transportation logistics, casino gaming and real estate. In connection with his ongoing representation of private equity funds and their platform companies, he handles industry add-on acquisitions, general matters and eventual portfolio company dispositions. Mr. King regularly structures sophisticated joint venture arrangements for both operational and investment ventures. Notably, Mr. King serves as lead counsel to a $1 billion mezzanine debt facility joint venture, including the structuring and negotiation of the venture and credit facility, as well as structuring, documenting and reviewing over $700 million in mezzanine and senior debt financings. Additionally, Mr. King works with real estate investment companies in corporate structuring and securities matters in connection with private placements of securities financing real estate acquisitions. Since 1999, Mr. King has worked pro bono as a mediator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in connection with its alternative dispute resolution program, facilitating mutually beneficial settlements of race, gender, age, national origin and religious discrimination and retaliation cases. Publications & Presentations"Royalty Payments from U.S. Source to Foreign Corporation Did Not Retain Character: SDI Netherlands v. Commissioner," The Tax Lawyer, Vol. 50"Navigating Accounting Issues in Transactional Relationships," Colorado Real Estate Journal, November 2007 | 