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Spencer represents clients in business and real estate transactions, including entity formation, commercial transactions, mergers & acquisitions, employment and regulatory compliance, contract drafting and  general business matters. He has industry specific experience representing auto dealers throughout Utah on matters ranging from daily business operations to purchase and sale transactions.

Russell K. Smith is a shareholder and chair of Durham Jones & Pinegar's Business & Finance Section. Mr. Smith represents private companies in a broad range of industries and sectors, including venture capital, life sciences, software, internet, real estate, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications and energy (including oil and gas).. Mr. Smith regularly advises start-up and emerging-growth companies from formation through liquidity event in matters including governance, debt and equity financing, equity incentive compensation, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Smith also represents venture capital firms, strategic corporate investors, and angel investors in their investments in start-up companies. Many of his clients are partnership and LLCs for whom he provides sophisticated management, capital strategy, and partnership tax advice.. Mr. Smith has been directly involved with LLC and partnership legislation in California and Utah. Most recently, Mr. Smith played a prominent role drafting and helping to pass Utah’s version of the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The Business Section of the Utah Bar Associate honored Mr. Smith as the 2012-2013 Distinguished Business Law Practitioner of the Year.

Paul Durham was named Salt Lake City “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation – Real Estate for 2014 by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Durham began practicing law in 1980 and founded Durham Jones & Pinegar in 1991. He has helped grow the firm from two lawyers in 1991 to more than 90 lawyers today. Mr. Durham is recognized nationally as a leading attorney in the areas of real estate law, corporate law and litigation. Mr. Durham is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics.

N. Todd Leishman’s practice concentrates on corporate and business law with emphasis on representing sellers in sales of privately owned companies to financial and strategic buyers; acquirers in mergers and acquisitions; and companies in debt and equity financing transactions. Mr. Leishman also acts as an outside general legal advisor to emerging and established companies. Mr. Leishman frequently negotiates and drafts complex commercial contracts such as manufacturing, licensing, lending and distribution agreements. He also advises clients about governance issues in privately held entities, and he often works closely with the firm’s litigation department in connection with corporate-governance lawsuits.

Mark Carman is a corporate transaction lawyer. He advises clients on mergers and acquisitions; private equity and venture capital transactions; debt transactions; real estate transactions; private securities offerings; investment fund formation; and various other business transaction matters.. Mark is listed in The Best Lawyers in America©, is rated by Super Lawyers, has been named a member of the Utah Legal Elite by Utah Business Magazine for numerous years, and is rated AV Preeminent by Martindalle-Hubbell.. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mark practiced as a certified public accountant.

Leonard W. Burningham (AV). Leonard has over 54 years of legal experience involving securities laws and merger and acquisition transactions, and has been instrumental in the completion of well over 200 mergers or acquisitions involving publicly-held companies, while also serving as a consulting lawyer to a substantial number of other lawyers across the United States that were involved in similar securities transactions.  His expertise in rendering legal opinions on the resale of “restricted securities” of publicly-held companies is widely known and respected in the legal community and the broker-dealer and stock transfer agency industries, including Rule 144 legal opinions and Section 4(a)(1) legal opinions under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).  Leonard graduated from Westminster College, a private university in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1967, where he served as Student Body President in the Fall Semester of 1966; he went on to graduate from the University of Utah College of Law in 1970, before entering private practice.  In 1971, he was named the youngest partner in the law firm of Moffat, Welling, Taylor and Paulsen, a successor to the long established and highly respected law firm of Moffat, Iverson and Taylor, before returning to a private practice in 1978. From 1978 to the present, Leonard has limited his legal practice solely to matters involving securities laws, rules and regulations, primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and legal opinions regarding the resale of restricted securities.  He was admitted to the Utah State Bar Association in 1970, and is authorized to appear in all Utah courts, as well as the United States District Court for the District of Utah (1970) and the United States Supreme Court (2011), from which he resigned on May 13, 2024, in protest of the reversal of the Dobb's decision and the court's ruling on "Presidential Immunity." During his legal career, Leonard has served: (i) as an Arbitrator of securities disputes for the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (now known as the “Financial Industry Regulatory Authority”); (ii) as an Expert Witness in state and Federal courts on matters relating to “reverse mergers,” securities law registration exemptions and the application and construction of federal and state securities laws in various situations and transactions; (iii) as a member and panelist of the Utah State Bar Association’s Securities Subsection; and (iv)  as the co-Chairman of the Bar’s Fall Forum on the use of wireless and paperless technologies (2004).  In his early years of litigation practice, he was trial counsel in the often quoted cases of Kerbs v. Fall River Industries, Inc., 502 F. 2d 731 (10th Cir. 1974) and Zabriskie v. Lewis, 507 F.2d 546 (10th Cir. 1974), which respectively held “Moreover, one who aids and abets a fraudulent scheme may be held accountable even though his assistance consists of mere silence or inaction” (p.741); and while favorably citing the language of Kerbs on aiding and abetting, found that the short term promissory note delivered in Zabriskie was a “security” that was not exempt from registration under the Securities Act, and that the issuance of the promissory note constituted a sale or disposition of a security in violation of 15 U.S.C. 78(c)(14) of the Securities Act.. Leonard served in the U.S. Military during 1961 and 1962 as a member of the Utah National Guard, which was called to active duty during the “Berlin Crisis,” when the Berlin Wall was built overnight on August 13, 1961.  He was honorably discharged in 1962.. He has been especially fortunate in having the continuing opportunity to practice law with two of his sons, Branden T. Burningham, Esq. (since 1994) and Bradley C. Burningham, Esq. (since 2003 [Bradley has presently taken an inactive status with the Utah Bar and is pursuing other business activities]).. Leonard was also the founder of the Utah Bar Association’s Annual Food and Clothing Drive for the Homeless and less fortunate members of our society in 1990, serving as its  Chairman for over 31 years, and continues to serve as its co-Chairman today.

Jeanene Patterson is a business and securities attorney admitted to practice in Utah, Delaware and New York.  Her practice involves the representation of corporations and limited liability companies in their formation and operation, contract review and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, sales and purchases of assets or stock, venture capital transactions, corporate finance transactions, and general Delaware and Utah business entity matters.. Ms. Patterson’s securities experience includes private placements of debt and equity securities, periodic SEC filings, registered debt and equity offerings, initial public offerings, exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitations and corporate restructurings.

I counsel clients on corporate and securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions, real estate transactions, business formation and corporate governance.

Dallin is a transaction lawyer focusing on securities and mergers and acquisition transactions. Dallin speaks Spanish as a second language.

Courtland Astill is a member of the Corporate Transactions & Securities, Mining & Natural Resources, and Mergers & Acquisitions practice groups at Parsons Behle & Latimer.. Before joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Mr. Astill attended the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude.  During law school, Mr. Astill was a member of the senior staff for the Utah Law Review. Mr. Astill also received a Master of Accountancy, and B.S., summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University.. Prior to law school, Mr. Astill worked for PwC, a Big Four accounting firm, in San Jose California, where he worked on initial public offerings and various public and private companies.

Areas of practice include limited liability company, corporate, real estate, and business law. Mr. Johnson assists individuals and entities with the negotiation and documentation of commercial financing, real estate transactions, and other business transactions. He also assists early stage companies with formation and structure.

Areas of concentration include securities and private placement, joint ventures, technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, recapitalizations, rollups and consolidations; commercial loans and other financings and general corporate matters.  Mr. Hawkins works with emerging and mid-size companies, commercial and investment banks, and venture capital funds.. Additional expertise in intellectual property, employment, and executive compensation matters.

Experienced Mergers attorney serving clients in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas.

Experienced Mergers attorney serving clients in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas.