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DEBORAH L. BAYLES
Practice Group: Real Estate
Intellectual Property
Banking and Financial Institutions
Licensed In: Colorado
Practice Experience
Deborah is a transactional attorney. She primarily represents small to mid-sized, privately held, emerging growth companies in the areas of real estate, secured transactions, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and general commercial law. Deborah's transactional experience includes the purchase, sale, leasing and licensing of real estate, intellectual property and company assets, as well as various types of secured transactions representing both lenders and borrowers.
Deborah also served as the Chief Legal Officer for a privately-held, venture backed, eCommerce company. In her capacity as CLO, she negotiated, documented and closed three private funding rounds, as well as bank lines of credit, equipment leases and software licenses. She was also responsible for negotiating and documenting all vendor, partner and customer contracts. Primary among her responsibilities was the development and implementation of a regulatory compliance program to ensure the company's compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act.
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Significant Recent Representations
Lender's counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $10 million acquisition, development and vertical construction loan for patio home project in Arapahoe County, Colorado (2005).
Lender's counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $7 million credit facility used for the acquisition by members of a golf course and club in Douglas County, Colorado. The Credit facility included funds for acquisition, working capital, facilities improvement and financing of individual members' capital contributions (2004).
Lender's counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $10.6 million construction loan to hotel owner for the reconstruction of hotel in Vail, Colorado which contained a conversion to permanent financing (2004).
Lender's counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $10.3 million acquisition, development and construction loan for residential real estate developer in Elbert County, Colorado which included master loan documents for development and vertical construction of homes (2004).
Developer's counsel in the acquisition, development and leasing of multiple parcel property for the commercial development of medical offices in Douglas County, Colorado (2004).
Lender's counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $7.4 million construction loan to commercial developer in Breckenridge, Colorado which converts to a mini-permanent loan after completion of development (2003).
Company counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $13 million in venture capital financing for privately-held, eCommerce company (2001).
Company counsel in the negotiation and documentation of $4.25 million in convertible debt financing (2000).
Lessee's counsel in the documentation of various lease and operating agreements for the development of a multi-million dollar fixed based operation at Centennial Airport in Douglas County, Colorado (2000).
Seller's counsel in the disposition of multi-building office complex with carry-back financing (1999).
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Education
California Lutheran University; B.A. in Political Science and English, summa cum laude, 1988.
University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies; M.A. in International Economics 1991.
University of Denver College of Law; J.D., Order of St. Ives, 1991; editor-in-chief of the DENVER JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY (1990/1991).
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Speeches / Publications
Buy-Sell Agreements, The Practitioners Guide To Colorado Business Organizations (pending publication in 2005) (co-author with Fay Chu Fong).
Avoiding Discrimination in your Screening Process, various on-line sources (2001).
Software Patents for the Non-Patent Practitioner, COLO. JOURNAL (March 2000).
Buyer Beware: A Discussion of the Limitation of Liability for Year 2000 Failures, 12 LOYOLA CONSUMER L.R. 4 (1999) (co-author with Tiffany S. Griggs).
Y2K Liability Looms for Failure of Third Parties, NAT'L L. JOURNAL at B10 (June 29, 1998).
Preventing an Infestation of the Millennium Bug, 26 COLO. LWYR. 123 (Oct. 1997).
Choice of Law, Choice of Forum and the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments within the European Communities, European Union Law After Maastricht (1996) (co-author with Ved P. Nanda).
Ownership of Copyright in Software Development by Independent Contractors, 23 COLO. LWYR. 2729 (Dec. 1994).
State Variations of Commercial Law: Colorado, Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (1993) (co-author with R. Daniel Scheid and David S. Fein).
Enforcement of Judgments in the European Community, European Community Law (1992) (co-author with Ved P. Nanda).
The Reunification of China: An Examination of the Legal Systems of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, 19 DEN. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 443 (1991).
Seminars
Fair Credit Reporting Act Compliance -- SafeRent, Inc. (2000 - 2002)
Controlling Internet and E-mail Usage, Employee Privacy and Employer Monitoring -- Freeborn & Peters Employer Alert (2000)
Protecting Intellectual Property through Preemptive Action - Freeborn & Peters Employer Alert (1999/2000)
Top Ten things to Know before starting a Business (1998/1999) -- Daniels School of Business, University of Denver
Year 2000 Issues: A roundtable discussion (1998) -- Co-Sponsored with the Colorado Software Association
eCommerce and the Law (1998) -- MBA/MIS program at CU Denver
The Year 2000 Dilemma (1998) -- Co-Sponsored with Arthur Anderson
Choice of Entity Considerations for Buy-Sell Agreements -- CLE in Colorado, Inc. (1999)
Law of the Internet - National Forum for Women Corporate Counsel (1999)
Broker and Agent Duty to Disclose Property Conditions (1994)
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Memberships
American Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Arapahoe County Bar Association
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Community Activities and Affiliations
Member of the Grant Review Committee for the Denver Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. |
