Garth B. Jensen

Garth enjoys having historical and cultural perspectives, whether it’s for meeting a client’s specific needs or better understanding the markets and people his clients serve. As an attorney with deep experience in the boardroom and with multinationals this additional perspective is invaluable to serving his clients.

Repeatedly recognized as a leader in the corporate arena, Garth advises public and private companies on day-to-day operations and governance issues; game-changing domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and divestitures; offerings; and transformative deals.

Over the course of more than 35 years of corporate practice, he has represented dozens of public companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, and foreign exchanges in many of their most important transactions. He has represented issuers in initial public offerings and other equity and debt offerings aggregating more than $15 billion of proceeds and has substantial experience representing multinational clients in international mergers and acquisitions, as well as in cross-border securities offerings.

• Handled the $350 million public debt offering for a NYSE-listed issuer.
• Negotiated a “going private” acquisition of a Nasdaq-listed medical device company.
• Represented a strategic purchaser in a $100 million stock and cash acquisition of a European manufacturing company.
• Represented underwriters and issuers in more than two dozen “at the market offerings” for registered proceeds totaling in excess of $350 million.
• Handled the initial SEC registration and Nasdaq Global Market listing of a $1.2 billion market capitalization telecommunications company.
• Handled $500 million medium-term note offering for NYSE-listed issuer.
• Lead $615 million convertible senior notes Rule 144A offering and subsequent registered resale for Nasdaq-listed issuer.
• Handled $1.4 billion non-negotiated stock tender offer and follow-on merger of Nasdaq-listed client telecommunications company.
• Represented Dutch telecommunications company in its €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) initial public offering with Nasdaq and European exchanges dual listing.
• Handled NYSE-listed real estate development company’s cash-out merger to private equity group and successful defense of derivative lawsuits.

Press

• Garth Jensen Featured in Denver Business Journal Article on the Denver Giving Machine, Denver Business Journal, Dec. 22, 2022.

Presentations

• Presenter, Managing Risk and Legal Issues In Operating Internationally: In-House Counsel’s View From The Trenches, Colorado Bar Association’s (CBA) International Law Section CLE, May 2, 2024.
• Presenter, Increasing Value and Mitigating Risk – Before, During and After your M&A Deal, Financial Executives Network Meeting, March 16, 2023.
• Presenter, Personal Action and Securities Law Compliance, Data Security, Compliance, and Privilege Presentation, May 2015.

Publications

• Author, “Effectively Setting Executive Compensation and Drafting Impactful Disclosure” Chapter, SEC Compliance Best Practices, 2015 ed. | 2015.