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Reid A. Godbolt
Practice Group: Corporate & Securities
Licensed In: Colorado
Practice Experience
During virtually his entire career, Reid has specialized in corporate, securities and business matters for public and private companies, securities brokerage firms, investment banking firms, venture capitalists, other financial services organizations and private entrepreneurs. He has extensive experience in purchasing and selling businesses, public offerings (for both underwriters and issuers), SEC compliance and enforcement, private placements, mergers and acquisitions and the formation of start-up companies. Reid also advises board members in internal investigations and on the sale of corporate control.
Much of Reid’s experience over his 25 year career with Jones & Keller has been representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings in a variety of industries including banking, technology, insurance, oil & gas and hedge/private equity funds.
He has been a Public Arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. since 1989 and has served as an expert witness on several securities law matters. top back to main Attorneys page
Significant Recent Representations
Internal Investigations
Led internal investigations by Boards of Directors of public companies (2004-2005).
Led internal investigation on behalf of Audit Committee of Fortune 500 company (2003).
Private Placements and Public Offerings of Securities
Issuer’s counsel IPO nutritional supplement company (2005).
Completion of two institutional PIPE transactions totaling $25 million (2004).
Purchaser’s counsel regarding $300 million of interests in 25 private equity funds (2003-2005).
Issuer's counsel for several hedge, venture and private equity funds (1995-2005).
Purchaser’s counsel relating to numerous multimillion dollar venture capital investments (2003-2005).
Issuer’s counsel for $9 million private placement for a bank (2004-2005).
Issuer’s counsel in $35 million of registered public offerings for acquisitions of three insurance holding companies (2003-2004).
Issuer’s counsel for several rounds of early stage financing for a nanotechnology company (2002-2004).
Issuer’s counsel for a $25 million private real estate fund (2003).
Selling agent’s counsel for a $50 million equity institutional private placement for a bank holding company (2002).
Issuer’s counsel for a $25 million public offering for an oil and gas exploration and production company (2001).
Issuer's counsel for several securitizations relating to business equipment and automobiles totaling several hundred million dollars (1997-2001).
Issuer’s counsel for a $15 million offering of trust preferred securities for a bank holding company (2001) and a $13 million initial public offering of common stock (1998).
Mergers and Acquisitions & Tender Offers
Completion of $465 million sale of a publicly traded oil and gas company (2005).
Completion of $85 million cash acquisition of an insurance company (2004).
Completion of several acquisitions of life insurance companies as well as completion of registered public stock offerings in connection with the transactions (1993-2005).
Completion of purchase of a software development company (2003).
Completion of the acquisition of a bank with assets of $85 million (2003).
Counsel to acquiror in an all cash offer for publicly traded shares of an oil company (2002).
Completion of the sale of a bank holding company with assets of $1 billion to a public bank holding company in exchange for SEC registered stock (2001).
Completion of the sale of a software company in consideration for stock and cash (2000).
Completion of the acquisition of an Internet website development company (2000).
Completion of a several million dollar divestiture of oil and gas processing assets for a S&P 500 company (2000).
Project Finance
Counsel on $115 million project financing for gas properties (2004).
Purchaser’s counsel in connection with a large power generation project (2003).
Counsel on $22 million project financing for oil and gas properties and assets (2003).
Education
J.D., Catholic University of America, 1980
B.A., University of New York, 1977 (with Honors)
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Speeches / Publications
"Staying Atop the 8-K Tightrope - The Modern Highwire Act for SEC Reporting Companies," 37th Annual Rocky Mountain Securities Conference, May 2005
Negotiating and Drafting Acquisition Agreements in Colorado," National Business Institute, January 2004.
Program Chair, "2002 Colorado Hedge Fund Symposium - Formation, Operation and Management."
"Registration, Regulation, and Compliance for Investment Advisers," Cascade Financial Management, Inc. Private Client Wealth Management CPA Continuing Education Course, May 31, 2002.
"Securities Offering Liability Revisited - Officers and Directors," 34th Annual Rocky Mountain Securities Conference, May 17, 2002.
"Current Securities Law Issues - Investor Relations," National Investor Relations Institute, May 14, 2002.
"Liability of Financial Officers in Securities Offerings - A Primer," Financial Executives International, October 10, 2001.
"Conducting An Internal Investigation - A Primer For Securities Practitioners," Securities Subsection Luncheon Business Law Section - Colorado Bar Association, April 20, 2000.
"Saving Time And Money In The Going Public Process,"
Financing Public and Private Oil and Gas Companies.
Memberships
Colorado Bar Association (Chairman, Securities Law Subsection, 1992; member Council of Corporations, Banking and Business Law Section, 1993-94)
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