Darren R. Hensley
Polsinelli PC
Darren R. Hensley, Esq., is a member of the Denver office corporate and transactional practice group of Polsinelli PC. He has practiced law in the Colorado legal market since 1990, with his practice emphasizing a wide variety of corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, financings, and general business law matters and transactions. Mr. Hensley was ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Corporate/M&A in 2014 - 2023 and was selected for inclusion in the 2013 - 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in the corporate practice area. In 2006 and 2010, 5280 Magazine named Mr. Hensley as a Colorado SuperLawyer in the business/corporate practice areas and in 2011 - 2021 named him as a Colorado SuperLawyer in the M&A practice area. He has also published articles and lectured on mergers and acquisitions and transactional legal topics. Mr. Hensley was previously appointed by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to the Colorado Securities Board where he served two three-year terms and as the Vice Chair and Chair, and is currently the Chair of the M&A Subsection of the Colorado Bar Association. Prior to joining Polsinelli PC, Mr. Hensley was a founding member and head of the corporate, securities, and M&A practice group of the Denver-based law firm of HKH Law, LLC. He was instrumental in the growth of the firm from two attorneys to 18 attorneys and over 30 total employees, with substantial management and administrative responsibility for the firm, including accounting, finance, risk management, and personnel. Inc. Magazine named the firm to the Inc. 5000 in 2007 - 2011 as one of the fastest-growing businesses in the United States. Prior to HKH, he practiced with the national law firms of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison LLP, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, and Kirkland & Ellis, and was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Russell G. Clark, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri. Mr. Hensley earned his B.A. degree (magna cum laude) from Missouri Western State College and Graceland College and his M.B.A. (Graduate Business Scholar) and J.D. (Order of the Coif) degrees from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the Denver, Colorado (Business Law Section, Business Law Section Executive Council, Chair - M&A Subsection, former member of Business Law Institute Planning Committee), and American (Business Law Section) bar associations and the Missouri Bar (Business Law Section). He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado and the Hope House of Colorado Strategic Planning Committee.
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