Mr. Berdan is involved in a full range of corporation finance and acquisition transactions, with a concentration on public and private equity and debt securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity and management sponsored leveraged buyouts. He works with issuers, investors, underwriters, and placement agents, and he counsels public and private companies in all aspects of their businesses, including Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and stock exchange listing requirements, federal and state securities laws and corporate governance matters.
Advising Fortune 500 companies and startups, Mr. Berdan has experience in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, manufacturing, construction, entertainment, telecommunications, consumer products, electronic commerce and the Internet, and computer hardware and software. He also has experience in a diverse range of corporation finance transactions, including representations of issuers in initial public offerings and follow-on offerings of equity securities, high yield and convertible debt financings (including related Exxon Capital exchange offers), senior secured credit facilities, "going private" and "going dark" transactions, and tender offers and consent solicitations.
Mr. Berdan is Holland & Hart's Corporate Group Practice Group Leader.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Financing Transactions
 Initial public offering for Montana-based bank holding company;
Initial public offering for motion picture exhibition company;
Initial public offering for Colorado-based bank holding company;
Initial public offering for natural gas processing company;
Initial public offering for medical device manufacturing company (withdrawn after registration statement declared effective by SEC);
Follow-on public offering for natural gas midstream master limited partnership
Follow-on public offering for midstream energy company;
Follow-on public offering for semiconductor designer and manufacturer; and
Numerous issuances of Rule 144A indebtedness.
Public and Private Company Mergers & Acquisitions
$1.2 billion sale by merger and related debt tender offer for SEC reporting medical device manufacturing company;
$250 million acquisition by merger of Nasdaq listed medical device manufacturing company, including related senior secured credit and senior subordinated note financing arrangements;
$350 million going private merger transaction subject to Rule 13e-3 for semiconductor manufacturing company;
Going private tender offer subject to Rule 13e-3 for publicly traded teleconferencing company; and
Numerous cash-for-stock and stock-for-stock mergers and asset acquisition and disposition transactions for public and private companies.
HONORS
Mr. Berdan was selected as a Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2010 and 2009 for Securities & Corporate Finance.
In 2008, Mr. Berdan was selected by Colorado in-house counsel for inclusion in the Corporate Counsel Black Book in the areas of General Corporate Law, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance and Securities Law & Securities Offerings.
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