Bio
As a business, privacy, and real estate attorney, Chris routinely navigates complex issues with a pragmatic eye. He thrives as the architect of a deal, resolving the various issues that arise throughout a transaction’s life cycle, and working with his clients to maximize value post-closing. Chris’ ability to anticipate issues and build consensus makes him a particularly effective transactional and compliance attorney.
Currently, Chris’ practice emphasizes transactions with business, data privacy, and real estate objectives that must be achieved in tandem. Many of his recent matters involve mergers and acquisitions with complex regulatory, credentialing, and contingent payment issues, often including private equity investments in health care and other regulated industries. He regularly counsels private equity clients, portfolio companies, family offices, and founding licensed professionals in the formation, acquisition, growth and sale of clinical healthcare practices. Outside of healthcare, Chris routinely handles both buy and sell-side mergers and acquisitions in various other industries such as technology, manufacturing, and hospitality.
Moreover, in a data privacy environment that often lacks extensive legal and regulatory precedent, Chris helps clients synchronize varying requirements under EU and U.S. data protection and privacy laws - finding pragmatic and consensus-based solutions to complex multi-jurisdictional data protection questions. Chris regularly advises clients on implementing protocols and controls in compliance with both domestic and international data protection regulations alike, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), and ever-expanding state privacy laws. He also advises on privacy by design, Generative AI, biometrics, analytics and issues implicating e-commerce, consumer protection, marketing and advertising laws. Clients appreciate Chris’ ability to find pragmatic and consensus-based solutions to complex multi-jurisdictional data protection questions. With an ever-increasing regulatory burden on data processing, security, and artificial intelligence, Chris brings valuable clarity to ever-evolving data and technology compliance issues.
In addition to his M&A and data privacy practice, Chris is equally at home advising clients on general corporate affairs related to formation, governance, restructuring, data privacy, commercial contracts, and regulatory compliance. Chris likewise handles his client’s real estate needs, whether incidental to a larger transaction or primary to the objective.
As a former business owner, Chris is uniquely equipped to offer legal strategy grounded in business reality when the letter of the law falls short. Regardless of the industry or transaction, Chris’ ability to view matters through the lens of his client set him apart as an attorney. Whether the deal requires decisive advocacy or a consensus-based approach, Chris never loses sight of a client’s objectives and exhausts all options to deliver the best possible results.
