Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) has a tradition of building lasting relationships with entrepreneurial pioneers, from railroads and mining, to oil and gas, and more recently technology and telecommunications. For more than 100 years, HRO has provided clients with the resources and capabilities to address their legal concerns. Approximately 265 lawyers at HRO serve clients in the United States and abroad from nine offices in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Francisco, Los Angeles, California; London and Munich. Whether a client is an individual or part of a corporation, partnership or other business entity, HRO can provide legal counsel to fit the client's needs. Nearly half of HRO's lawyers represent clients in lawsuits, administrative proceedings and other means of resolving disputes. Notably, HRO is internationally-recognized for its corporate and litigation practices and is the only Denver-based firm with an international office in London. Lawyers from the corporate, securities, emerging growth, tax, banking, finance, bankruptcy and real estate practice groups assist large and small entities in both routine and extraordinary aspects of their businesses. Because business today is transacted in a global marketplace, HRO lawyers also advise United States-based and foreign companies on business transactions domestically and abroad.

IRS Touts a Significant Win in a Recent Son of Boss Tax Shelter Case: Stobie Creek Investments LLC et al. v. United States
Michelle Ferreira, David B. Strong, August 29, 2008
On July 31, 2008, the United States Court of Federal Claims found Stobie Creek Investments LLC to be a Son of Boss tax shelter which was created to avoid tax on $204 illion in capital gain realized on the sale of a family's business.

SEC Releases New Guidance on the Use of Company Websites
M. Mashenka Lundberg, Sarah Mussetter, August 29, 2008
On August 1, 2008, the SEC released interpretive guidance concerning the use of websites as a means of communicating important information to the investing public.

D.C. Appellate Court Reverses Ruling On Whole Foods-Wild Oats Merger
Sarah Horvitz, August 13, 2008
In a split decision handed down July 29, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed the decision of the district court that determined that the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") failed to demonstrate sufficient possibility of anticompetitive effects in a...