Allen . Sparkman
Sparkman Foote, LLP
Allen Sparkman is a founding partner of Sparkman + Foote LLP, which has offices in Denver and Houston. He has practiced tax and business law since 1973. Mr. Sparkman’s practice includes the
areas of business transactions, securities, tax, and professional responsibility. Mr. Sparkman’s work includes the preparation of securities disclosure documents for start-up companies in a variety of fields. Mr. Sparkman also regularly prepares corporate, LLC, and partnership documents, and represents buyers and sellers of businesses, including preparing or reviewing all necessary legal documents.
Mr. Sparkman is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Colorado Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. For the American Bar Association, Mr. Sparkman is a member of the Business Law Section and its Committees on Corporate Governance; LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations (co-chair, task force on model Series LLC operating agreement; chair, governance subcommittee); Mergers and Acquisitions; Middle Market and Small Business (chair, business entities governance subcommittee); Nonprofit Organizations; Professional Responsibility (chair, state and local liaisons committee); Tax Law Section; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division and its Agricultural, Business Law, and Estate & Financial Planning Committees; and Center for Professional Responsibility. He is a past chair of the Business Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and an active member of the Business Law Section’s Statutory Drafting Committee. He was a member of the Colorado Bar Association’s Ethics Committee for many years.
With Herrick K. Lidstone, Jr., Mr. Sparkman is co-author of Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships in Colorado, Second Ed. (CLE in Colorado, Inc., 2017), which received the 2016 Award of Outstanding Achievement from the Association for Continuing Legal Education for its first edition. Mr. Sparkman is a contributing author to William Schmidt “Preserving Your Wealth: A Guide to Colorado Probate & Estate Planning” (2012), The Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations, 3rd Ed. (E. Lee Reichert and Allen E.F. Rozansky eds., CLE in Colo., Inc. 2019), and A Guide for Colorado Nonprofit Organizations, 2nd Ed. (Karen E. Leaffer ed., CLE in Colo., Inc. 2018). Mr. Sparkman has authored a number of articles relating to limited liability companies and professional entities. Mr. Sparkman is listed in The Best Lawyers In America® for both Colorado and Texas and speaks regularly at continuing legal education seminars in Colorado, Texas, and nationally on entity selection, fiduciary duties and governance, mergers and conversion, veil piercing, ethics, series LLCs, and tax planning.
Mr. Sparkman earned his A.B., with honors, from Princeton University in 1968 and his J.D., with high honors, from the University of Texas School of Law in 1973, where he was a Vice Chancellor, Teaching Quizmaster, and Associate Editor of The Texas Law Review. In 2015, Mr. Sparkman received a Certificate in Theology and Ministry from the Princeton Theological Seminary.
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