About
Operator before lawyer.
Corporate attorney in Denver, representing companies, venture capital funds, and private equity funds in financings, formations, and acquisitions.
Walter is a corporate associate at Arnold & Porter in Denver. His practice focuses on M&A transactions, private equity, venture capital investments, and general corporate counseling. He’s advised clients on domestic and cross-border deals, stock and asset acquisitions, and the company-formation and financing work that surrounds them.
Before Arnold & Porter, he was an M&A associate at Bartlit Beck and a corporate associate at Cooley.
Background
Walter came to law through operations and the Army, not directly from undergrad. He went to the University of Oklahoma for his bachelor’s in International Security Studies, then served four years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. After that he spent a stretch at DaVita in Denver as a Senior Analyst in Operations Innovation before law school. He went to the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a senior editor on the Michigan Law Review and graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif.
That operator-then-lawyer arc shapes how he works on deals. He’s sat in the chair where the integration plan, the staffing model, or the working capital number actually has to land. Lawyers who haven’t are sometimes surprised by how often a deal’s legal terms get tested by the operational reality after close.
Credentials
- Current
- Corporate Associate, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP — Denver (Apr 2025 – present)
- Prior
- M&A Associate, Bartlit Beck LLP — Denver (Sep 2022 – Mar 2025)
- Corporate Associate, Cooley LLP — Denver (Oct 2021 – Aug 2022)
- Pre-law
- Senior Analyst, Operations Innovation, DaVita Inc. — Denver (2018)
- Infantry Officer, U.S. Army — Fort Carson, Colorado (2014 – 2018)
- Law
- J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2021 — magna cum laude, Order of the Coif; senior editor, Michigan Law Review
- Undergrad
- B.A., International Security Studies, University of Oklahoma, 2013 — summa cum laude
- Admitted
- Colorado
- Focus areas
- Corporate & Finance, M&A, Private Equity, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital
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