Gil is Chair of the Corporate Practice Group in the Denver office.

Clients rely on Gil to structure complex joint ventures, strategic alliances, private equity investments, exits, and business and licensing arrangements. He works extensively with corporations, limited liability companies and other alternative entities for use in joint ventures, international transactions and other complex business arrangements.

With an LL.M. in tax, Gil also analyzes and advises clients regarding corporate, partnership, estate and gift, and international tax matters.

While working across sectors, Gil has worked with investors and operators of marijuana-related enterprises, providing corporate, tax and M&A advice.

He has also had extensive international finance experience at a senior level working previously for the federal government and in private practice advising individuals and multinational enterprises regarding inbound and outbound transactions.

Active in numerous pro bono and community activities, Gil serves as the board president for Ramah in the Rockies and Bamidbar, a summer camp and wilderness therapy program located on 300 acres in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests in Colorado. He’s particularly proud of the organization's successful efforts to rebuild after a devastating fire in August 2017. He also serves on the board of the Dartmouth Association of the Rocky Mountains.

Corporate/M&A

Gil provides counsel to companies from formation to disposition including strategic decisions and pre-incorporation guidance, corporate governance and executive compensation, venture capital and other corporate financings, mergers and acquisitions and other transactional and commercial matters. As corporate counsel he provides advice regarding commercial transactions, including procurement, supply-chain and sponsorship agreements.

Gil regularly works with clients in the following industries:

• Consumer products, including organic foods and products
• Technology including digital media and advertising, software licensing, software as a service and white label arrangements, and e-commerce
• Fintech
• Healthcare
• Professional services (including physicians, attorney, accounting, architects and engineers)
• Marijuana & Industrial Hemp

Regardless of the industry, Gil is often an integral member of a client’s team. Working with start-ups, and even more-established companies, he helps corporations understand the role of corporate counsel and regularly is able to demonstrate the value of timely and efficient legal guidance.

Unique to corporate counsel, Gil's practice regularly includes tax guidance including the following:

• Tax evaluation for acquisitive transactions, including tax-free reorganizations, liquidations, tax allocation issues, and state, local and international tax problems.
• Assistance with pre-deal and post-closing individual tax planning including estate and gift tax considerations.
• Succession planning for closely held or family owned businesses.

Marijuana and Industrial Hemp

While Gil is the co-chair of the firm’s Marijuana Working Group, he is not a “marijuana lawyer.” Instead, since 2013 Gil has used to broad expertise to advise clients in the marijuana industry nationally and in Colorado on regulatory issues, intellectual property, tax, employment and other general corporate issues. His clients include medical and retail cultivators and distributors, manufacturers of marijuana-infused products, marijuana technology companies including fintech-related businesses, real estate owners and investors and family office investors.

Of considerable value to marijuana-related businesses is Gil’s advice regarding tax and corporate structuring to deal with the effects of IRC § 280E.

Because of his tax and international trade background, Gil has been able to provide a unique perspective to cross-border transactions in the Marijuana industry including acquisitions and mergers involving Canada listed companies.

Tapping into Kutak Rock’s extensive historic experience with agribusiness (https://www.kutakrock.com/services/practices/agribusiness/agribusiness-business-services), Gil has helped numerous clients engage in the production, processing and distribution of industrial hemp and its derivative products under the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills.

International

Leveraging his considerable international experience, including building relationships and cultural understanding, Gil guides individuals and companies regarding U.S. inbound and outbound activities.

Prior to entering private practice, Gil had extensive legal international experience including the following positions:

• U.S. Investment Officer for Latin America, the Caribbean and southern Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
• Legal Advisor to Commissioner Don Newquist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
• Representative for the Executive Office of the President for domestic and international events and bilateral and multilateral meetings for the President, First Lady and Vice President.
• Associate attorney with a private law firm in La Paz, Bolivia primarily advising the government of Bolivia with respect to the privatization of state-owned enterprises.

His international practice regularly involves:

• Preliminary due diligence for proposed international operations and transactions including identifying suitable local counsel and partners.
• Preparation, review and analysis of contractual agreements, including joint ventures, leases, royalty agreement, buy-sell agreements, distribution and supply agreements and other commercial agreements.
• Analysis of international tax matters and coordination of in-bound and out-bound tax matters with CFOs or outside accountants.
• Development of compliance programs for foreign operations including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act policies.