Colorado Real Estate Journal - October 21, 2015
Caitlin Glazier joined the Denver office of SRS Real Estate Partners as an associate. She will focus on tenant and landlord representation alongside the Denver team of the real estate company. Glazier joined the firm from Imagine!, a nonprofit organization that provides services designed to incorporate people with developmental, cognitive and physical challenges into their community. She also was a program coordinator for the Dayspring program. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. Fairfield and Woods PC added Cecil E. Morris Jr. as of counsel in the firm’s litigation department. Morris has been in practice for more than 30 years, focusing on civil litigation in federal and state courts and arbitration, mainly in the areas of securities, business torts, banking and commercial law. He also serves as an arbitrator. Further, Morris practices in the areas of legal ethics and attorney discipline. Morris earned his law degree from the New York University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to joining the law firm, Morris was a shareholder and director with Pendleton, Wilson, Hennessey & Crow PC. Jim Tyler joined API-Sheldon Gold Realty Inc. Commercial Real Estate Services as a tenant advocate. Most recently, Tyler was with the Denver Tech Center office of Savills Studley. He brings more than 27 years’ experience in corporate tenant representation and has completed more than 375 transactions totaling more than 4 million square feet of commercial office and flex space in his career. In his new role, Tyler will focus on business development and expanding his service offerings to include user acquisitions of office buildings as well as leasing. Matthew Trone of Cushman & Wakefield achieved the SIOR industrial designation awarded by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. To achieve the SIOR designation, Trone completed at least five years of creditable experience in the industrial real estate, met stringent education requirements and demonstrated professional ability, competency, ethical conduct and personal integrity. Trone specializes in representing landlords and tenants in the sale and leasing of warehouse/ distribution facilities. He has a background in structuring lease transactions, property dispositions and build-to-suit projects. Trone has completed transactions totaling more than 5.5 million square feet over the last three years. Trone began his career with Cushman & Wakefield in 2008. Gregory B. Kanan was honored as the Best Lawyers 2016 Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Banking and Finance in Denver. Kanan of Lewis Roca Rothergerber LLP was one of 14 attorneys from the firm’s Denver office selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2016. Also recognized were: Frederick J. Baumann, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, litigation - regulatory enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) and litigation - securities; Kristin Bronson, litigation - real estate and real estate law; Thomas J. Dougherty II, eminent domain and condemnation law; Charles Goldberg, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and litigation - First Amendment;Tennyson W. Grebenar,banking and finance law and financial services regulation law; William P. Johnson, litigation - banking and finance; Kevin M. Kelly, banking and finance law; James M. Lyons, arbitration, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, criminal defense: white collar and mediation; David McGimpsey, energy regulatory law; Roger M. Morris,gaming law; Ben M. Ochoa, litigation - real estate; Franklin D. O'Loughlin, insurance law; and James R. Walker, litigation - trusts and estates, litigation and controversy - tax, nonprofit/ charities law, tax law and trusts and estates. Three attorneys from the Colorado Springs office also were recognized: Edward A. Gleason, commercial litigation; Eric V. Hall, First Amendment law; and L. Martin Nussbaum, nonprofit/charities law. HVS Capital Corp., the investment banking arm of HVS for the Americas, added Steven Vitale and John Lahner to its headquarters office in Denver. Prior to joining the firm, Vitale spent five years in investment banking and commercial real estate brokerage and 20 years in high-tech hardware and software sales. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and his master’s in business from University of Houston. Lahner previously represented buyers and tenants in commercial real estate transactions with a Denver-based brokerage firm. He also has experience working at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, where he worked as a contract attorney. Prior to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Lahner held legal positions at the Department of Energy in Golden and Department of the Interior in Denver. He is a graduate of the University of Denver’s law school and has an undergraduate degree from University of Oregon.