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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL

— June 17-June 30, 2015

Amy Ruhl

was appointed

vice chair of

Moye White LLP’s

real estate section.

Ruhl’s practice focuses on

commercial real estate trans-

actions,

including

development,

leasing, real

estate financ-

ing, and

acquisitions

and disposi-

tions of real

estate. She

has repre-

sented both

landlords and tenants with

respect to office, industrial

and shopping center leasing;

developers in all aspects of real

estate acquisition, development

and disposition; and lenders

and borrowers in various real

estate finance transactions.

Patti Mason, LEED AP,

was

named executive director of

U.S. Green Building Council

Colorado Chapter.

Mason joined USGBC Colo-

rado in 2008 and held the posi-

tion of director of advocacy

and associate director prior to

accepting her role as executive

director. In her new position,

Mason will provide the guid-

ing vision for the Colorado

chapter.

As the director of advocacy

and associate director, Mason

leveraged her policy experi-

ence to help pass legislation

that encourages all schools to

reach a higher level of energy

efficiency and led a successful

statewide effort to add search-

able green fields into the Mul-

tiple Listing Service. She also

served as a frequent subject

matter expert to state and local

lawmakers and helped over-

see the chapter’s two largest

events, Rocky Mountain Green

and the Green Schools Summit.

She has a master’s degree in

natural resources law and poli-

cy from the University of Den-

ver and a bachelor’s degree in

journalism from Colorado State

University. She also earned a

Sustainability Management

Certificate from the University

of Colorado.

Sharon Alton

joined the

Downtown Denver Partner-

ship

as vice president of public

events and activation.

Alton came to the DDP from

the U.S. Green Building Coun-

cil Colorado Chapter, where

she was executive director.

She earned her bachelor’s

degree in business-marketing

from the University of Missouri

Columbia.

Shannan de Jesús

joined

Otis, Bedingfield & Peters LLC

as a litigation associate.

Her practice at the law firm

will focus on all areas of real

estate and business litigation,

with a focus

on intellec-

tual property

issues.

She joined

the firm after

working for

the Larimer

County Jus-

tice Center

for more than

four years,

working as a law clerk for

Judges Dave Williams (retired)

and Michelle Brinegar, assist-

ing with numerous trials and

cases involving claims of con-

struction defects, dissolution of

business and others.

She earned her Juris Doctor

and Master of Laws in intel-

lectual property from Franklin

Pierce Law Center (now the

University of New Hampshire

School of Law). After gradu-

ating from law school, she

worked as a staff attorney for

the 1st Circuit of Florida courts;

as an attorney ad litem for

Lawyers for Children America;

and on various pretrial and real

estate matters for firms in Flor-

ida. She is admitted to practice

in Colorado and Florida.

Tim Brown

joined

Northstar

Commercial Partners

as its

new president.

At the privately held com-

mercial real estate investment

company,

Brown will

focus on

building

additional

capital as

well as

“investing in

human part-

nerships in

Colorado and

nationwide.”

Additionally, Brown plans to

assist in securing nearly $250

million in new capital to finan-

cially assure Northstar initia-

tives and investment opportu-

nities.

Previously, Brown was the

founder of Three Creative, a

leadership organization he

designed to impact 1 million

lives through books and train-

ing as well as president of

Concord Energy Holdings. He

founded Radius Media and as

navigated projects in the high-

tech and telecommunications

industry.

Chambers USA

released

its 2015 rankings, in which

law firm Husch Blackwell

received high honors in eight

areas of practice: corporate/

commercial, corporate/M&A,

environment, health care, intel-

lectual property, labor and

employment, litigation: general

commercial and real estate,

while five Colorado attorneys

received regional honors.

The Husch Blackwell attor-

neys recognized were:

Robert

P. Attai,

corporate/M&A;

Jeffrey A. Chase,

litigation:

general commercial;

Paul A.

Jacobs,

real estate;

Kevin

H. Kelley,

real estate; and

Mary H. Stuart,

labor and

employment.

Karen Samuels Jones

was

among 50 Stinson Leonard

Street attorneys to be ranked in

the 2015 edition of

Chambers

USA.

Jones has been listed in Cham-

bers USA since the company

began publishing its listing. This

year was her second year listed

in Band 1 and her 12th year list-

ed as a recommended real estate

professional in Colorado.

Jones rep-

resents banks

and compa-

nies in both

Denver and

the greater

Rocky Moun-

tain region.

Jones focuses

her practice

on purchases

and sales of

real estate,

commercial leasing and con-

struction, and permanent lend-

ing. She also represents clients

with loan foreclosures, receiver-

ships, loan sales and workouts.

Her clients include state and

national banks, real estate pri-

vate equity investors, life insur-

ance companies, other private

lenders, senior living facility

owners and operators and tech-

nology companies. She is a

recognized specialist in complex

real estate secured transactions,

acts as local counsel to vari-

ous out-of-state attorneys and

firms and routinely lectures on

secured lending and distressed

real estate finance topics.

Chambers USA

also recog-

nized attorneys at Otten John-

son Robinson Neff + Ragonetti

PC.

Steven M. Cohen

was ranked

in Band 2 for real estate;

Thom-

as J. Ragonetti

was ranked

Band 1 for real estate and real

estate: zoning/land use;

John

D. Sternberg,

senior statesman:

real estate; and

Michael Westo-

ver

was ranked in Band 1 for

real estate.

The law firm also was ranked

as a Band 1 real estate firm in

Colorado.

Who’s News High Fives!

Travis Hughbanks, a design-

er with SlaterPaull|Hord

Coplan Macht, will travel to

Kenya to oversee construction

of aWomen’s Resource Center

in Naro Moru.

Hughbanks and his co-

worker, Tim Reinen, have

been designing the center as

part of a pro bono service proj-

ect/humanitarian architecture

effort. They will oversee local

skilled workers as they build

the facility out of compressed

earth blocks. The center will

provide private education for

women of all ages, including

computer courses and local

trades skills.

SlaterPaull|Hord Coplan

Macht donated more than

150 hours of time for Hugh-

banks & Reinen to design the

2,400-square-foot building,

which will include four class-

rooms plus an open-air mar-

ket for women to sell their

products. The design process

included charrettes and a

collaborative effort by other

members of the firm. Denver-

based Edge of Seven is the

nonprofit organization fund-

ing the project. Hughbanks is

a board member of Edge of

Seven.

SlaterPaull|Hord Coplan

Macht also has raised funds

to purchase medical supplies

from Denver-based Project

CURE. Hughbanks and Rein-

en each personally delivered

a CURE kit to the village in

Kenya.

SlaterPaull designers oversee Women’s

Resource Center construction in Kenya

SlaterPaull|Hord Coplan Macht’s Tim Reinen, second from the

left, participates in a group discussion about design concepts for

a new Women’s Resource Center in Kenya. He and designer Travis

Hughbanks will be traveling to Kenya to oversee the project.

High Fives! recognizes good deeds and accomplishments

by companies and individuals in the Colorado commercial

real estate industry. Please share your good news

and photos with us b

y emailing jjamieson@crej.com.

Submissions should be 200 words or less.

Amy Ruhl

Shannan de Jesús

Tim Brown

Karen Samuels

Jones