Jackie Benson

Jackie has two decades of experience counseling entrepreneurs, companies, and investors about corporate transactions and contracts, including organization, mergers and acquisitions, state and federal securities law, private equity, venture capital, financing, restructurings, and other corporate compliance issues and commercial agreements.

She has drafted and negotiated complex agreements, advised boards of directors of both public and private companies, and prepared private placement documentation for growing companies. Jackie has represented companies before the SEC and PCAOB and has experience with federal securities litigation.

Jackie leads the Quantum Computing section of the firm’s Technology and Artificial Intelligence industry group. She has also run two businesses, so she is able to bring this practical business experience to the table when advising clients.

• Represented The Garmon Corporation dba NaturVet in its $475 million sale to Swedencare.
• Represented C&D Energy Services in its sale to Briarwood Partners.

Presentations

• “AI in the Practice of Law: It Won’t Replace You,” CBA Future of Law Committee and Communications and Technology Section, Feb. 22, 2024
• “Corporate Transparency Act,” Sherman & Howard Breakfast Briefing, Feb. 5, 2024
• “Leveraging AI While Keeping Your Company & Hiring Practice Ethical,” Association of Corporate Counsel, Dec. 6, 2023
• “We’re Selling the Company! Employment Issues in M&A,” Annual Colorado Labor & Employment Law Seminar, Sept. 29, 2023
• “What is ESG and Why Should I Care?” Annual Colorado Labor & Employment Law Seminar, Oct. 7, 2022
• “Choice of Entity When Forming a Business,” Hanging Your Shingle Conference, Aug. 20, 2015
• Choice of Entity When Forming a Business, Hanging Your Shingle Conference, Aug. 14, 2014
• “JOBs Act and the Impact on Our Jobs,” PLUS Southwest Chapter Seminar, April 16, 2014
• “Choice of Entity When Forming a Business,” Hanging Your Shingle Conference, Aug. 15, 2013
• “New Rule 506(c): Eliminating the Prohibition Against General Solicitation,” Moye White LLP, September 2012
• “Choice of Entity for Colorado Law Firms,” Hanging Your Shingle Conference, Aug. 2012
• “Basics of Securities Law and Private Placement Exemptions—Slightly More than Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Transactional Securities Law (In 60 Minutes or Less),” Colorado Bar Association, May 11, 2012
• “Taking Companies Public,” Colorado Bar Association, Nov. 14, 2011
• “Choice of Entity for Colorado Law Firms,” Hanging Your Shingle Conference, August 2011″
• “Legal Essentials for Start-Ups,” Mile High Business Alliance/Denver Food Lab Entrepreneur Workshop, April 2011
• “Changes to the Investment Advisers Act and Regulation D,” Colorado Bar Association Dodd-Frank Act Series | Dec. 15, 2010

 Publications

• Navigating Regulation D Private Offerings: What You Need to Know (Quick Prep), Aspatore Books, 2015
• “Effectiveness of JOBs Act Remains To Be Seen,” Law Week Colorado, March 4, 2013
• “JOBs Act: The On-Ramp to Success or the Road to Nowhere?” Denver Business Journal, Sept. 28, 2012
• “Basics of the Attorney-Client Privilege for Directors,” Board Guru
• “Choice of Entity for Colorado Law Firms,” Colorado Bar Association, Aug. 2012
• “Four Emerging Trends in Securities Litigation,” New Developments in Securities Litigation, 2012
• “Crowdfunding under the JOBs Act,” Colorado Bar Association, May 2012
• “Chapter 2 Overview of Business Entities,” Colorado Business Contracts, A Drafting Guide for Lawyers and Business Owners, 2010
• “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Short Sale-New Rule 10b-21,” Colorado Bar Association, December 2008
• “Will Up the Ladder Leave Attorneys Up a Creek,” Houston Lawyer, May 2003
• “Send Me Your Money: Controlling Terrorism by Restricting Fundraising in the United States.” Houston Journal of International Law, 1999
• “Arthur Andersen v. Perry Equip. Corp: A New Restriction on Fee Shifting Under the DTPA,” 1 J. Tx. Consumer L. 321, 1997