Practice
M&A, private equity, and venture capital — practiced from Denver.
Documentation and execution for companies, sponsors, and venture investors. Front Range anchored, with the firm’s national platform handling everything across state lines.
Mergers & acquisitions
Stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, both domestic and cross-border. Diligence scoping through definitive agreements, closing mechanics, and the indemnification and earnout work that lives on after close. Middle-market deal sizes are most common.
Private equity
Platform acquisitions and add-on roll-ups for sponsor clients. Sell-side engagements representing founders and management teams exiting to PE buyers. Management equity, rollover terms, and the post-closing governance documentation that decides who actually runs the company on Day One.
Venture capital
Priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes, and the formation and recapitalization work that surrounds them. Both company-side and investor-side. The work is heaviest in the seed-to-Series-C window where the documents are still being argued.
Where Walter works
Walter is based at Arnold & Porter’s Denver office and most of his matters touch the Front Range corporate community — Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs — in some way. The firm’s national platform means cross-border and out-of-state work is routine, but the operator and entrepreneur side of the practice is anchored locally.
Inbound
For new matters, the cleanest path is the firm intake process through Walter’s Arnold & Porter profile. Please don’t send specifics of a confidential or time-sensitive matter through this site or by email until a written engagement is in place.
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Personal site. Views are Walter’s, not Arnold & Porter’s. Nothing here is legal advice. Past results don’t guarantee future outcomes.