About Karen
Karen Chapman is a Member in Sherman & Howard’s Corporate and Business Department. She is a highly respected specialist in mergers and acquisitions and corporate financings, leading teams that close sophisticated transactions valued in the hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Karen plays a preeminent role representing airlines in jet fuel storage and distribution system leasing, contract and financing matters at major airports throughout the United States. Karen’s practice also includes sports law representations, serving as general counsel to a professional tennis league, negotiation of sponsorship and endorsement contracts and structuring and documentation of equity interests in start-up companies in exchange for services of sports marketing company and athletes.
Practice Areas
Education
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Denver (2012)
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Recognized: Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Special Focus: Collateralized Debt Obligations
- Special Focus: Lending
- Boettcher Scholar
- Colorado Bar Fellow, Colorado Bar Foundation
- Listed in Colorado Super Lawyers, 2010
- Distinguished Achievement in Aviation, Armbrust Aviation Group, 2010.