Jones & Keller PC

Jones & Keller provides litigation and counseling services relating to competition issues in a wide variety of industries.

We represent clients in antitrust investigations and litigation before federal, state and administrative tribunals, from investigation and trial through the highest appellate levels, including the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Trade Commission and the (former) Civil Aeronautics Board. The head of this practice area served for almost a decade as the Chief of the Colorado Attorney General’s Antitrust Unit.

Our experience in this regard includes prosecuting or defending virtually every type of antitrust, competition, trade regulation and unfair trade practice claim – including bid rigging, boycott and refusal to deal, exclusive dealing, actual and attempted monopolization, conspiracy to monopolize, predatory pricing, price discrimination, price fixing, restraint of trade, sales below cost, tying and the like.

Jones & Keller attorneys have extensive experience representing national, regional, and local financial institutions, bank holding companies, commercial finance companies, mortgage companies, thrifts, insurance and bonding companies, borrowers, issuers, and private equity groups. Our banking attorneys advise these clients through a variety of transactions, including loan transactions, workouts, and litigation, private placements of debt and equity securities, trust preferred financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, new bank charters, acquisitions and divestitures of commercial loan portfolios, and the offering of new products and services.

Our attorneys work closely with each client to understand their objectives and the legal needs of each transaction and with other attorneys in the firm to bring expertise when needed in related practice areas, such as real estate, corporate, securities, tax, and litigation.

Few businesses go for long without being exposed to the increasingly complex practice of creditors rights and bankruptcy proceedings. We help guide our clients through the complications of financial distress of their customers, vendors, lenders, partners or investors.

Jones & Keller represents Bankruptcy Trustees, lenders, borrowers, creditors’ committees and asset purchasers in all phases of informal workouts and loan renegotiations as well as general reorganizations and liquidations.  Our creditor clients include numerous banks, oil field supply companies, brokerage firms, freight companies, franchisees, factoring companies and various other industrial and commercial concerns.  Our broad experience in the relationships between bankruptcy, labor, corporate, regulatory, securities and tax law permits us to offer knowledgeable guidance in an increasingly complex and pervasive area of practice.

We also provide representation in all phases of bankruptcy litigation, including fraudulent conveyance, relief from stay of proceedings, preference and avoidance litigation, valuation hearings, and appeals.

Attorneys at Jones & Keller have extensive international legal and business experience, providing services to American clients doing business overseas, and international clients doing business in the U.S. and abroad. Our attorneys have extensive experience crafting business transactions in Canada, Europe (particularly the United Kingdom, Sweden and other parts of Western Europe), Australia, Asia, Africa, South America and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Our US inbound legal services make the US border more transparent for foreign companies and investors seeking to do business or who own assets in the US. Our lawyers understand the value of patience, communication and education in the international business process. Multi-cultural business arrangements often require sensitive analysis of a variety of uncommon factors, specific to the cultures involved. Our attorneys work efficiently and seamlessly with their counterparts in foreign nations, as may be necessary, to provide maximum value to our clients.

We help our U.S. clients pursue their business goals in international markets worldwide. Our international clients include international mining companies, oil and gas companies, power projects, manufacturing companies, technology companies, multinational trading companies, financial institutions, foreign governments, trade associations and individuals. To provide just a few examples, we have helped our US outbound clients to establish oil & gas facilities in South Africa, food processing facilities in Siberia, charter a bank in Russia, enact a mining law in Mongolia, build a concentrator in Spain, quarry quartz in Australia, distribute packaging products across Europe and negotiate infrastructure and procurement contracts in China. In connection with our US inbound legal services, we have helped numerous foreign companies establish or grow their presence in the United States, put in place US-foreign intercompany agreements, hire US employees, protect foreign-owned IP, and assist in other cross-border legal planning, all of which allows our foreign clients to focus on growing their US operations and increasing US profit.

Jones & Keller’s Denver-based employment law attorneys advise and defend employers across Colorado and nationwide, providing full-service legal counsel on workplace compliance, investigations, and employment disputes. Our Employment Group delivers pragmatic, business-minded solutions to employers navigating the complexities of today’s workplace. We combine deep subject-matter expertise with strategic foresight, helping clients prevent disputes, resolve conflicts, and protect their workforce. Whether counseling on everyday workplace issues, defending complex litigation, or supporting transformative deals, we deliver clarity and confidence in the most challenging employment law environments.

We help employers proactively manage workforce risk using data-driven insights and technology-supported compliance systems. Our employment attorneys are the first call for clients facing urgent employment challenges and have deep experience in crisis management and navigating high‑stakes situations with precision and calm.

Jones & Keller manages sophisticated domestic and international mergers and acquisitions transactions. Whether the transactions are asset or stock, public or private, and regardless of the size of the entities, M&A transactions are complex and require legal finesses and expert negotiating skills for greatest success.

Our attorneys have decades of experience in M&A transactions, including contested and negotiated acquisitions and tender offers, takeover defenses, leveraged buyouts, corporate spin-offs, corporate auctions, and strategic acquisition and divestiture programs. We work closely with attorneys from our various practice groups, including tax, technology, intellectual property, litigation, benefits, antitrust, real estate, utilities and transportation. This collaboration ensures we are always on the front line of new developments and alternative transaction structures, including Up-C tax structures for dual-classes of stock and optimal tax treatment. We draw on attorneys in the firm with broad and diverse industry experience to implement due diligence investigations, identify and resolve legal obstacles to the parties’ desires, and help find solutions to intractable problems.

We work closely with our clients to achieve the business objectives that drive merger and acquisition transactions, and help them identify and implement acquisition financing, comply with and obtain appropriate clearance under tender offer, registration, proxy and other securities law requirements, and identify and resolve post-transaction integration and assimilation problems.

The Jones & Keller Securities Litigation and Enforcement Defense team’s breadth of expertise and experience with both federal and state securities laws and regulations is unsurpassed in the Rocky Mountain Region. Our thorough knowledge of the legal issues facing our clients enables us to develop and implement forward-thinking, cost-effective strategies against allegations lodged by often heavily resourced agencies, companies and individuals. Our representation is strategically tailored to address current legal matters and anticipate other collateral risks.

We regularly represent large and small private companies, investment brokers and advisers, municipal funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, and their officers, directors and employees in defending investigations and regulatory actions brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state Securities Commissioners. The superior results we achieve reflect an established track record counseling clients in all aspects of securities defense and dispute resolution.

We represent these same companies and individuals in the full spectrum of civil litigation matters that may arise in federal and state courts and in arbitration forums such as FINRA, JAMS, JAG, and AAA. This civil litigation often involves allegations of violations of federal and state securities laws as well as claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, misrepresentation, and breach of contract.

We also represent investors in actions in federal and state courts and in arbitration arising from the violation of federal and state securities laws and common law claims.

ndividuals and businesses face an ever-changing web of federal, state and local tax laws, regulations and policies. Jones & Keller’s attorneys work with clients to achieve advantageous and economical tax planning solutions for their unique situations in this often-confusing area of the law. Jones & Keller’s attorneys pride themselves on guiding clients to achieving the best outcomes from a combined economic, legal and tax perspective, while also generally assisting clients with creative solutions to complicated business problems.

The tax practice works closely with attorneys in Private Wealth & Estates and Corporate attorneys to secure tax-advantaged outcomes for individuals, families and businesses.

Whether your net worth is $100 million or $1,000,000, there are planning strategies to protect and efficiently distribute your wealth the way you want. We counsel and spearhead efforts to protect you and your assets in the event of your incapacity and to efficiently distribute your assets to your selected beneficiaries after your death.

Jones & Keller attorneys advise families, individuals, businesses, and trustees in all aspects of private wealth, planning and administration. We also represent clients in estate litigation as well as fiduciaries, including corporate trustees, in an advisory capacity and in litigation.

While considering estate, gift and income tax obligations, we function as your family and business’ general counsel, quarterbacking efforts to protect and extend your family and business prosperity. In collaboration with the firm’s corporate attorneys, we advise our clients and their businesses as they create, grow, manage, preserve, and distribute wealth.

Jones & Keller attorneys bring generations of legal knowledge and experience in efficiently designing and executing individual and multigenerational wealth and succession plans. Our commitment to making a difference in the lives of our clients is visible in how we proactively engage, protect and defend client interests.