Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations — Advanced Topics
November 2017
Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations — Advanced Topics
Program Description:
We are pleased to present the Third Edition of The Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations. The Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations provides Colorado attorneys with a comprehensive guide for forming and advising start-up business entities during their initial period of business operations. This treatise is a single reference guide that accumulates and addresses the issues typically faced by transactional business law attorneys practicing in Colorado.
The Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations contains guidance for attorneys who are new to the business law practice, as well as veteran business law practitioners. This full day program explores some of the advanced topics discussed in the Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations, including presentations examining less common organizational structures such as cooperatives and public benefit corporations, corporate maintenance and ongoing review, insurance coverage issues, sale of business assets in bankruptcy, and more. All class attendees receive a copy of the Third Edition of the Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations.
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CBA-CLE Publications to Watch For:
Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships in Colorado, 2nd Edition
ZLLCAB17B
And
A Guide for Colorado Nonprofit Organizations, 1st Edition ZGCNPO07B
PROGRAM AGENDA
8:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Introductions
Presented by E. Lee Reichert, Esq., and Allen Rozansky, Esq.
8:40 am
Cooperative Businesses
Presented by Linda Phillips, Esq., and Jason Wiener, Esq.
Cooperatives may be created as corporate forms or unincorporated associations. This segment will focus on corporate-styled cooperatives as well as Colorado’s hybrid cooperative statute, which blends corporate and limited liability partnership elements into what is known as a limited cooperative association.
9:25 am
Real Estate Issues for Business Organizations
Presented by J. Marcus Painter, Esq.
The purpose of this segment is to provide the business lawyer who does not “specialize” in real estate an overview of the most common real estate issues businesses outside the real estate industry face. The overview provides a “30,000-foot view” of these common issues and will lead a business lawyer to the key statutes and cases to start a deeper inquiry.
10:15 am
Networking Break
10:30 am
Public Benefit Corporations
Presented by Whitney Holmes, Esq.
The Colorado public benefit corporation is the newest form of business organization to be created by state law. Public benefit corporations enable Colorado corporations to expand upon the fundamental purpose of promoting the interests of its shareholders while producing one or more “public benefits” and operating “in a responsible and sustainable manner.” Learn more at this segment.
11:20 am
Corporate Maintenance: Important Factors For Business Transactions
Presented by Stan Doida, Esq., and Vaughn Marshall, Esq.
A business can be much like a living organism — it can grow, contract, split, absorb other organisms, adapt to new environments, and evolve. This segment serves as a guide to corporate practitioners for the continual maintenance of an entity to proactively spot issues before they become problems. It will cover the deeper aspects of buying and selling businesses, as well as raising money, and how important diligent maintenance is for successful corporate transactions.
12:00 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
1:05 pm
Insurance Coverage
Presented by Sarah Wallace, Esq., and Andrew Petrie, Esq.
At the end of the day, insurance law is contract law with an overlay of strong public policies in the insured’s favor where the policy language is ambiguous. Accordingly, this segment will set forth legal principles of general application, but they must always be assessed in the context of the specific policy language at issue.
1:55 pm
Trademarks, Copyrights, and Domain Names
Presented by Charlene Krogh, Esq.
One of the most important issues facing a new company is protecting its intellectual property assets, particularly those patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets that create value for the business. Learn how to establish parameters of intellectual property ownership and protocol for transfer of intellectual property, and how to maintain the confidentiality of company innovations and trade secrets.
2:45 pm
Networking Break
3:00 pm
Sale of Business Assets in Bankruptcy
Presented by Jeremy Peck, Esq. and Adam Hirsch, Esq.
A business entity, other than a sole proprietorship, has two main choices in filing bankruptcy: Chapter 7 liquidation or Chapter 11 reorganization or liquidation. In determining whether to consider bankruptcy among the tools available to liquidate the assets of a business, one should consider the costs of bankruptcy and the potential benefits. At first glance, bankruptcy sometimes appears to be an easy answer to a difficult financial situation. “Easy” is not, however, the word that many bankruptcy practitioners would choose.
3:50 pm
Noncompetition, Non-solicit, and Confidentiality Agreements
Presented by Hon. J. Erick Elliff
This segment will address restrictive covenants in the employment context. Issues specific to agreements not relating to employment will also be discussed, though as will be seen, the distinction between employment and other commercial agreements may be one without a substantive difference.
4:40 pm
Adjourn
Location Information
CLECI Large Classroom
1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
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1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $618.00 |
| CBA Member | $578.00 |
| New Lawyer Edge Partner: $289 (50% off the CBA Member price) | $289.00 |
| CLE Elite Pass Holder w/ Printed Book | $239.00 |
| CLE Basic Pass Holder w/ Printed Book | $239.00 |
- General Credits: 8.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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