Colorado Real Estate Journal - March 4, 2015
Keely Downs was named a partner at Denver law firm Moye White LLP. Downs’ practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate transactions and general corporate matters. She represents lenders and borrowers with the acquisition and financing of multifamily properties as well as represents both lenders and borrowers with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development financing of multifamily properties, including affordable housing and senior housing projects. Downs also represents landlords with commercial lease negotiations. She also has done pro bono work for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Janine Halverson joined Wells Fargo’s Multifamily Capital group as a director responsible for originating multifamily loans, specializing in Federal Housing Administration loans. Based in Boulder, she serves the banking and financial services institution’s customers across the country. Halverson joined the group with 16 years of experience in multifamily housing. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, she served as an approved MAP deputy chief underwriter with AmeriSphere Mortgage Finance. While there, she facilitated affordable and market-rate FHA insured transactions. Halverson also spent nearly 10 years working for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Denver Multifamily Hub. The last position she held was operations director responsible for all FHA multifamily and 202/811 production. She also has extensive asset management and subsidized housing experience from working at the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Halverson has a degree in political science from Colorado State University and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado Denver. Bill Mosher, senior managing director of Trammell Crow Co.’s Denver Business Unit, is a 2014 inductee into Colorado State University’s Everitt Real Estate Center Hall of Fame. The award is presented to established real estate executives and visionaries who demonstrated a “significant” impact in their field. Mosher oversees TCC’s development and investment activities throughout Colorado, including Class A office, industrial, residential, retail and health care projects. He also serves as the CEO of the Denver Convention Center Hotel Authority, is the board chair of the Downtown Denver Partnership’s Denver Civic Ventures, past chair of ULI Colorado and a member of the Colorado Forum. Michael A. Smith, MAI, of general real estate appraisal and consulting firm Foster Valuation Co. was awarded the Appraisal Institute’s MAI membership designation. Smith earned his undergraduate degree at Colorado State University with a concentration in commercial real estate and finance. Chris Bourgeois, loan originator with Terrix Financial Corp., is now a stockholder of the company. Bourgeois joined the commercial mortgage banking firm in 2006 and has extensive experience with originating and underwriting commercial real estate loans. He graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree with a real estate and finance concentration. Carolyn White of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck joined the newly formed Colorado State University Real Estate Council. White, a shareholder in the law firm’s Denver office and co-chair of the Real Estate Department, joins a council of other highly experienced members of the Colorado real estate community. The CSU Real Estate Council will support the research and programs at Everitt Real Estate Center at CSU’s College of Business. Eric Holsapple, former executive director of the Everitt Real Estate Center, will lead the council. Housed in the College of Business’s Finance and Real Estate Department, the Everitt Real Estate Center is supported largely through membership fees, event profits and donations. The center hosts educational events and publishes research material that addresses the current and future real estate-related needs of Northern Colorado, the Colorado Front Range and the western United States. Josh Berry and Casey Kannenberg, two attorneys in full-service law firm Fennemore Craig’s Denver office, have been inducted as Fellows to the Colorado Bar Foundation. Berry focuses his practice in business development for entrepreneurial and start-up companies, government affairs and relations, and medical and hospital malpractice defense. He currently serves on the board of governors for the Colorado Bar Association and is an executive board member of the Young Lawyers Division. Berry earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Knox College. Kannenberg's practice includes business and civil litigation, health care litigation, medical negligence defense, and sports and entertainment law. He serves on the executive council for the Colorado Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division and as co-director for the committees and liaisons section of the American Bar Association. Kannenberg earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University.