Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar shareholders have elected nine lawyers to the Firm’s Board of Directors to serve for one year, managing the affairs of the firm. Those elected include Bradley Cahoon, Elisabeth Calvert, Richard Hymas, Jeffrey Jones, Larry Laycock, Todd Leishman, Joshua Little, Sarah Matthews and Gretta Spendlove.

Cahoon is a co-leader of the Firm’s U.S. Environmental practice. He is an environmental lawyer who represents clients throughout the United States. He has a record of using his litigation, administrative, regulatory and government relations skills to help his clients achieve their business objectives. His clients have included land developers, home builders, manufacturers, lenders, chemical, energy, mining, steel, and waste companies, wireless carriers, dry cleaners, metal recyclers, ski resorts, ranchers, and farmers. His environmental practice spans water, zoning, energy, mining, utility, and real estate law.

Calvert is a member of the Firm’s Corporate practice, where she works on a wide variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions and acquisition financings, equity and debt offerings, corporate governance and other matters of general corporate law. She focuses her practice representing corporate clients in a diverse range of industries as borrowers in a variety of financing transactions, including unitranche, senior and junior secured, and mezzanine transactions.

Hymas is a member of the Firm’s Employment & Labor and Litigation practices and serves as the Firm’s Chief Operations Officer. He specializes in representing companies, governmental entities and individuals in employment-related litigation. His practice also involves representing clients in commercial litigation matters in state and federal court. This includes claims of fraudulent and negligent representation, fraudulent or negligent non-disclosure, breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder oppression, tortious interference with contract or economic opportunity, and other contract, tort and statutory claims.

Jones is a member of the Firm’s Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Venture Technology and Emerging Growth practices. He also serves as the Firm’s Chief Marketing Officer. He represents both public and private companies, including start-up and early-stage companies, in the information technology, restaurant, manufacturing, retail, dental services, controlled environment agriculture, and real estate breakage sectors.  He regularly advises companies with respect to corporate governance, public disclosure, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, distribution, procurement, licensing and similar commercial agreements, restructuring transactions, equity compensation arrangements and risk management.

Laycock is a member of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation practice. His litigation practice encompasses patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, trade secrets, false advertising, unfair competition, and related complex litigation. He focuses on a broad range of complex, business and intellectual property litigation and he has litigated cases involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, trades secrets, false advertising and unfair competition. He also has a wealth of experience in addressing transactional matters, including licensing, contracts, intellectual property portfolio management, opinion preparation for IP matters, and strategic planning for implementation of IP enforcement and related monetization. Laycock’s representation of clients covers a wide range of technologies, including pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and life sciences, laboratory testing, electronic data storage, satellite transmission technology, medical devices, nutritional supplements, exercise equipment, blow-molded plastic products, and thin film deposition, among many others.

Leishman is a member of the Firm’s Corporate practice and serves as the Firm’s President and Chairman. His practice focuses on buy- and sell-side transactions representing private and public companies. He represents strategic and financial acquirers as well as closely and family-owned business in middle market transactions. Leishman also advises corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as majority and minority owner groups on entity governance issues such as shareholder and partner disputes and "corporate divorces". When needed, he works closely with litigation teams in connection with corporate governance lawsuits. He also negotiates and drafts buy-sell and other shareholder agreements in closely held entities.

Little is a member of the Firm’s Corporate practice and serves as its Chief Financial Officer. He advises businesses in meeting their strategic objectives and focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, public company compliance, private equity transactions, securities offerings commercial contracts and licensing, corporate governance and other general corporate matters. Little has extensive experience representing private and public companies, including insurers and insurance agencies, in stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, mergers and other reorganizations. He also regularly assists technology companies in negotiation of commercial and licensing contracts, particularly SaaS contracts.

Matthews is a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property practice. She focuses on patent prosecution, including drafting and prosecuting patents related to the chemical arts. She also handles all aspects of patent law, including validity and infringement opinions, counseling, due diligence, and patent litigation at the district court and Federal Circuit level. Matthews is experienced in intellectual property licensing, intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property portfolio management, intellectual property opinions, domain name dispute proceedings under the ICANN, and DMCA take-downs.

Spendlove is a member of the Firm’s Real Estate, Business & Finance and Intellectual Property practices. Spendlove represents buyers and sellers in purchasing, selling, leasing, and developing commercial real estate; advises startups and established entities in creating, buying, selling, merging and maintaining partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations, as well as entering into a wide range of business contracts. She also handles intellectual property issues such as trademarks and copyrights.

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