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When businesses need clear and pragmatic counsel on finance transactions, corporate governance, or business combinations, they turn to Ms. Stark. She represents both public and private companies, including master limited partnerships (MLPs), providing advice on a wide variety of business transactions, including public and private debt and equity offerings; tender and exchange offers; and mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Ms. Stark also provides general corporate and securities advice to many clients, and her work has included providing fiduciary duty advice and disclosure advice, as well as crisis management for public company clients. Ms. Stark has experience in a variety of industries including oil and gas, mining, natural products (LOHAS), medical device manufacturing, technology, mutual funds, microchip manufacturing, telecommunications, and retail. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Ms. Stark spent nine years as an attorney at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
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Sale of Associated Content, Inc. to Yahoo! Inc.
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$1.2 billion public tender offer for all the outstanding securities of a medical device manufacturer
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$1.7 billion public tender offer for all the outstanding securities of a software company
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$189 million sale of White Wave, Inc. to Dean Foods
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Numerous cash-for-stock public mergers
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The $949 million purchase by The Williams Companies, Inc. of an entity with operations in the Bakken play in North Dakota
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Multiple offerings of Common Units representing limited partner interests in DCP Midstream Partners, LP
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Initial public debt offering of $250 million of 3.25% Senior Notes for DCP Midstream Partners, LP
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Issuance of $700 million in 144A debt offerings for SM Energy, and related A/B Exchange offers
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Issuance of $1.8 billion in 144A debt for midstream oil and gas company
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$2.975 billion in issuances of 144A debt for telecommunications company
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Initial public offering of $325 million of Common Units representing limited partner interests in Williams Pipeline Partners L.P.
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Issuance of $500 million in Credit Linked Notes (synthetic credit facility)
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Issuance of approximately $530 million in new indebtedness for parent company of mutual fund investment advisor and related exchange offer for outstanding debt
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Public equity offerings by private equity fund as selling shareholder
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Representation of underwriter in connection with dual-tracked IPO/private sale transaction
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Ms. Stark is listed in the 2009 - 2012 editions of Chambers USA for Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions law, was recognized by Colorado Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" in securities & corporate finance in 2011, and was listed as a Colorado Super Lawyer in 2012 and 2013.
In 2011, she was selected by peers as the top M&A lawyer in Colorado as published in Law Week Colorado's "Barrister's Best 2011."
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- 2007 – 2012 Member, Boulder Chamber of Commerce Esprit Awards Committee (2011 Chair)
- Member, Colorado Bar Association
- Member, Denver Bar Association
- Member, Naturally Boulder
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Holland & Hart News Update
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Holland & Hart News Update
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Boulder County Business Review
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The High Tech Legal Practice: Attorney Client Privilege and the Internet
70 U. Colo. L. Rev
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April 23, 2013
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| December 2012
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Finance Issues
Coordinator, presenter, and host, Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs): Governance, Tax Issues, Financial Considerations and IPO Process Seminar presented by EUCI
| September 2010
| Holland & Hart Breakfast Briefing
| September 2010
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Case Law and Legislative Update
Colorado Business Law Institute
| 2009
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The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Panel Discussion, Naturally Boulder Days
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DePauw University (B.A., 1993)
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University of Colorado School of Law (J.D., 1998)
- Order of the Coif
- University of Colorado Law Review
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