Darren R Hensley

Practice Areas

Corporate & Transactional

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

Private Equity

Private Equity - Mergers & Acquisitions

Public Company M&A, Going Private & Other Transactions

Securities & Corporate Finance

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

- Business Law Section

Colorado Bar Association

- Business Law Section, Executive Council Member

- M&A Subsection, Chair

- Business Law Institute Steering Committee, Former Member

The Denver Bar Association

- Business Law Section

The Missouri Bar

- Business Law Section

Securities Board of Colorado, 2012-2018

- Chair, 2017-2018

- Vice Chair, 2016-2017

Hope House of Colorado

- Strategic Planning Committee, Former Member

Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado

- Board of Trustees, Former Member

University of Kansas Alumni Association

Work Highlights

Sale of the assets of a concrete construction company specializing in tilt-up panels, foundations, slab on grade, pre-construction services, and sitework to a leading national concrete contractor.

Sale of the membership interests of a distributor of 3M automotive and building films to a private equity firm.

Numerous asset acquisitions of automotive service centers for a private equity backed platform company.

Asset sale of a construction crane company to a strategic buyer.

Sale of the assets and real estate of one of the largest industrial contractors in the Rocky Mountain region, a specialty sheet metal fabricator and installer for industrial, commercial and government clients, to a family office.

Represent management of an automotive products company in connection with the company’s stock sale to a portfolio company of a private equity group.

Minority recapitalization with a family office consisting of divestitures, F reorganization, recapitalization and senior credit facility.

Sale of membership interests in holding companies of a provider of foundry services and support of ion implantation for the microelectronics industry to a global leader in engineered materials and optoelectronic components.

Sale of 51% of physician endoscopy practice to an owner and operator of hospitals and related health care entities, structured as a contribution of the assets to a newly formed LLC subsidiary and a subsequent sale of 51% of such LLC.

Distressed asset acquisition of a division of an oil and gas services company.

Sale of substantially all of the assets of a technology company in exchange for the cancellation of debt.

Sale of assets of an investment banking firm to an accounting firm with an investment banking division.

Membership interest sale of an ecommerce site search and merchandising company to a fund buyer.

Public company merger sale of an identity theft protection company to an information solutions company.

Represent management of an owner and franchisor of automotive service centers in connection with the company’s stock sale to a private equity firm.

Leveraged sale of a carpet installation company to a private equity firm.

Merger acquisition, including senior and subordinated debt and equity financing, of a provider of foundry services and support of ion implantation for the microelectronics industry.

Corporate and securities aspects of sale of equity interests in a limited partnership owning a commercial office building and the general partner thereof to a real estate holding company.

Offering of convertible notes followed by an offering of Series A Preferred Stock in a virtual sports training company.

Secondary market sale of Series E Preferred Stock.

Membership interest sale of a subsidiary providing warranty and spare parts services for central solar inverters to a private equity fund, including a post-closing line of credit provided to buyer by seller.

Reorganization from a limited liability company with S corporation election to a C corporation, followed by a convertible bridge note financing, of an online rental home occupancy tax solution company.

Sale of assets of an employee benefits consultant company to an employee benefits brokerage firm.

Asset sale of a manufacturer of specialty agricultural harvesting equipment to a custom engineering, design and manufacturing company.

Acquisition of the membership interests of a warehousing and logistics company.

Dissolution of a joint venture involving a gravel pit mining operation.

Asset sale of a railroad technology company to an international company.

Asset sale of software development and consulting division to a telecommunication numbering administration company.

Asset sale of a brain health and performance company.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Colorado

Missouri

Personal

Darren Hensley 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.

See his full bio at https://www.polsinelli.com/darren-r-hensley

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