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Robert F. Wilson

Robert F. Wilson counsels business organizations and their owners on formation, structuring and other general legal issues. He advises clients regarding matters of commercial law including borrowing and lending, business acquisitions, mergers and reorganizations, financing, and international business transactions. Bob also counsels clients on business taxation matters. He is special counsel with the firm.

Bob's clients have regional, national and international interests and operations. He represents various companies and businesses, including entities involved in natural resources, real estate, IT and financial services.

The following are typical of the kinds of projects with which Bob assists his clients:

• Helps clients obtain or make small business and multi-million dollar loans
• Forms and organizes start-up businesses and ventures
• Advises computer software providers
• Sells, acquires and merges regional businesses
• Organizes and obtains federal tax exemptions for trade associations

Specific examples of work include the following:

• Helped structure a 30-megawatt wind farm venture in Southern California
• Assisted an integrated physician provider association in Colorado
• Advised a client with respect to unwinding a complex group of interrelated real estate development entities; the result was the client's acquisition of a building site on which a prime office building was constructed; organized and structured the project development entities
• Advised the seller of a well-known brew-pub
• Advised on licensing and regulatory matters and national contracts for international financial services companies with operations in both the United States and foreign countries

Prior to returning to Denver to practice law in 1972, Bob was in the tax department of Arthur Young & Company (now Ernst & Young) in San Diego, California. Following his return to Denver, Bob was associated with and became a partner in what was then the fifth largest Denver law firm. Bob has been with the firm since 1981.

Bob was selected a Colorado SuperLawyer in the field of business and corporate law in 2006,2007, 2008 and 2009. He was also included in the 2009 Corporate Counsel Edition of SuperLawyer under International Law. AVVO rating of 10.0/10.0

Email  rwilson@penberg.com

Publications and Speeches
Bob is the author of various taxation articles, including several relating to the structuring and taxation of business ventures. He has lectured on foreign and domestic tax issues, buying and selling businesses, and loan documentation issues.

Admitted to Practice
Colorado; California (inactive)

Community Involvement
Australian-American Chamber of Commerce (Rocky Mountain Region); Director and Secretary, 1990-1999; Bob also acted as the attorney for its organization in 1988 and obtained its federal tax exemption

The Denver Partnership, Inc.; Economic Development Committee, 1987 - 1992; Capital Formation Committee, 1992; Vision 2020 Committee, 1996

KRMA-6 Public Television; Corporate Development Cabinet, 1993

Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation; Financial Advisory Committee, member since 1987, chairperson since 1991; Trustee-at-large, 1991-92 and 1997-99; Executive Committee, 1997-99; Editor, Tax Chapters, American Law of Mining 2d Ed. (1996)

World Trade Center Denver; Chairman, 2005-2006; member of board of directors since 2000-2009.

Professional Activities
Denver Bar Association; Colorado Bar Association; State Bar of California; American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties, since 1990, Section of Business Law, Committee on Legal Opinions, since 1994; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants, Regulatory Affairs Committee, 1998-present; Licensed CPA (Colorado - Inactive)

Education
1970, J.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1967, M.S.B.A., Accounting, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado

1966, B.S.B.A., Accounting, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado