Representative Experience

General Business Disputes

• Represented minority interest holder in an investment bank in the successful settlement of a business divorce dispute with his former business partner.
• Represented textile manufacturer in federal litigation, appellate proceedings, and trial regarding pricing and amounts owed by a customer. Case settled after trial.
• Represented Malaysian electronics manufacturer in dispute with customer regarding supply contract terms. Case settled prior to trial.
• Represented beneficiary of estate in appellate arguments before the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court in dispute over asset distribution and mismanagement of corporate assets.
• Represented commercial tenant in trial regarding rights under master lease.
• Represented Utah-based software company in Florida federal court regarding improper interference by a non-practicing entity.
• Represented Colorado-based medical device manufacturer in federal antitrust lawsuit against a Fortune 500 company.
• Represented hospitality company in arbitration involving a business divorce.
• Represented majority members of a multi-member company in a multi-year business divorce against a member whose misconduct required resolution across multiple entities and business relationships.

Sports Industry

Reid’s practice focuses on professional franchises, amateur organizations, and businesses operating in and around the sports industry. Sports organizations face a distinct legal environment–one that blends employment and disciplinary disputes, governance and membership rights, high-profile investigations, and complex commercial relationships with leagues, associations, sponsors, and governing bodies. Reid brings litigation, investigative, and general advisory experience to each of these areas. Representative matters include:

• Represent Denver Broncos in Flores, et al. v. National Football League, et al. lawsuit currently pending in Southern District of New York.
• Represent Denver Broncos in investigations and employment disputes.
• Represent multiple amateur hockey programs in investigations and disputes over their rights as members of governing amateur hockey associations.
• Represented developer in multi-party lawsuit involving a city and the U.S. Olympic Committee arising from a multi-million-dollar real estate development dispute.
• Advise on the governance and operations of golf facilities and private country clubs, including member disputes and facility management matters.
• Helped develop compliance programs designed to reduce operating risk for university and high school athletic departments.

M&A, Private Equity, and Trade Secrets

Reid’s team advises clients regarding a wide range of middle-market transactions, and he directly represents clients in investment-related disputes. Investors, lenders, buyers, and sellers rely on Reid’s expertise in deal-related disputes across a broad range of industries, including post-acquisition claims involving misrepresentation, fraud, breaches of purchase agreements, and in trade secret disputes involving theft, misappropriation, and injunctive relief.

• Oversee teams handling M&A transactions for buyers and sellers across manufacturing, materials, software, technology, and professional services industries, with deal sizes ranging from $5 million to over $100 million.
• Oversee teams handling the formation of private equity funds and investment advisory firms.
• Represent private equity purchaser of a medical services company in a dispute with the seller involving claims of securities fraud, civil theft, and breach of contract arising from alleged misrepresentations made during the acquisition.
• Represent specialty construction services contractor in a multi-year trade secret dispute after a former employee misappropriated several thousand proprietary files and used them to launch a competing business. Successfully obtained preliminary injunction barring the former employee’s use of the information.
• Represented technology services company in securities fraud, fiduciary duty, and contract-related lawsuit against selling company and principals who failed to disclose material facts during an asset purchase transaction.
• Represented metropolitan district in securities fraud and fiduciary duty litigation against prior owner of a real estate development who illegally issued and purchased municipal bonds.
• Represent subsidiary of publicly-traded company in dispute with former owner relating to breach of contractual obligations under an asset purchase agreement.
• Represented limited partner in dispute with general partner of private-equity fund relating to mismanagement of the fund’s assets.
• Represented healthcare company in post-purchase arbitration against former owner relating to accuracy of disclosures during due diligence.
• Represented publicly-traded company in prosecution and defense of multiple securities fraud cases relating to a scheme to disseminate false negative information while exploiting short positions in company stock.

Financial Services

• Serve as outside counsel to multiple banks, overseeing hundreds of loan transactions, loan modifications, workouts, and default matters across a broad range of commercial lending relationships.
• Represented insurance company in prosecution and defense of several federal and state trial and appellate-level cases relating to a half-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent loan securitizations.
• Represented bank and trust company in fiduciary litigation brought by victims of a third-party Ponzi scheme.
• Represented real estate developer in a lender-liability jury trial.
• Represented banks in lawsuits relating to state and federal statutory protections for institutions that acquire assets from the FDIC.

Construction

• Reid and his team serve as ongoing advisors and dispute counsel to multiple construction companies, handling the full range of legal matters that arise in the industry. Representative work includes:
• Represent specialty and general contractors in construction defect claims, including disputes over workmanship, design coordination, and project delivery.
• Handle subcontractor disputes, including payment, performance, and scope-of-work disagreements.
• Advise clients in disputes involving contract interpretation, project completion, and damage claims.
• Advise construction company clients on operational, contractual, and risk management issues in their day-to-day business operations.

Oil, Gas and Energy

• Represented the nation's largest producer of wind energy in a $250 million dispute relating to a North Dakota wind-energy facility.
• Represented E&P and midstream companies, investors, and royalty holders in business and royalty disputes, royalty compliance matters, real estate transactions, corporate, and financing matters.