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Additional Bios
•  Buck Beltzer
•  Robert Benson
•  Walter Bithell
•  Steve Bowman
•  Kevin Bridston
•  Phil Dabney
•  Rebecca Dow
•  Lars Evensen
•  Paula Fleck
•  Daniel Frost
•  Greg Gilbert
•  Tim Gordon
•  Jim Gonzales
•  Tobie Hazard
•  Sean Hanlon
•  Peter Houtsma
•  Gavin Jangard
•  Kevin Johnson
•  Kait McLendon Kent
•  Carla Kok
•  Charles Lucy
•  Todd Miller
•  Jeremy Nork
•  Melissa Orien
•  Shawn Rodda
•  Sean Thueson
•  Mary Tribby
•  Bryan Wright
•  Mary York
•  David Zimmerman

 

Rebecca Dow - Partner

Denver Office
555 Seventeenth Street,
Suite 3200
Denver, CO 80202-3979
Phone: 303-295-8413
Fax: 303-295-8261
rdow@hollandhart.com


Practice Areas
Business
Real Estate
Resorts, Lodging and Leisure Industry Group
Construction and Design Representation

EXPERTISE

Ms. Dow is currently Practice Group Manager of Holland & Hart’s Real Estate Practice Group.  Ms. Dow has more than 24 years of experience in all aspects of commercial real estate, including large, master planned development projects, acquisitions, subdivision and entitlement work, and timeshare and fractional  registration.  Ms. Dow has extensive experience representing owners in commercial construction contracts and architect agreements.  She is experienced in representing commercial developers in all areas of land use and annexation, residential and mixed-use development, financing, “building green” legal issues, resort development and retail and office leasing.

Ms. Dow has represented an array of commercial real estate clients.  Her experience includes representation of one of the largest master-planned projects in the State of Colorado.  She also represents purchasers and developers of resort and ski area projects, a large multi-state homebuilding company, developers of mixed-use developments and office campus sites, landlords of office buildings and shopping centers, motion picture theatre companies and retail tenants.

From 1992 to 1998, she was Senior Vice President, Legal for one of the largest theatre circuits in the world, with more than 2,000 screens, for which she was responsible for all of the real estate leasing, development and construction legal work of more than $500 million in theatre projects, including the construction of more than 50 theatres throughout the U.S.

Ms. Dow has been listed as a leading real estate lawyer in Chambers USA Leading Lawyers for Business and in Colorado Super Lawyers since 2007.

PRESENTATIONS

Program Chairperson, CLE Colorado, 24th Annual Real Estate Symposium, July 2006.

Program Chair, CLE Colorado, “Litigating Real Estate Issues” March 2005.

Program Co-Chair, CLE Colorado, “Secured Lending in Real Estate” November 2004.

Program Co-Chair, CLE Colorado, “Commercial Leasing in Colorado” March 2004.

Program Chair, CLE Colorado, “Real Estate Acquisitions 101” February 2004.

Program Co-Chair, CLE Colorado, “Tax Issues for Real Estate Attorneys” November 2003.

Program Chair, CLE Colorado, “Purchase and Sale Agreements” October 2002.

Speaker, ICSC   Law Conference, “Ins and Outs of Entertainment Leasing and Development” October 2001.

Round Table Speaker, ICSC Law Conference, “Issues with Entertainment Tenants” October 2000.

Speaker, CLE International, “Commercial Real Estate Purchase and Sale Conference” January 1999.

Speaker, CLE International, “Build-to-Suit Issues: Negotiating Leases Conference” April 1998. 

Speaker, Advanced ALI-ABA Course of Study, “Drafting for Planned Unit Developments, Golf Course Communities and Condominiums” May 1990.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Past Chair, Colorado Bar Association, Real Estate Section Council 
Fellow, Colorado Bar Foundation
Member, U.S. Green Building Council, Colorado Chapter
Member, Interprofessional Committee with the Colorado Real Estate    Commission
Member, American Bar Association, Real Property and Construction Sections
Member, Women In Real Estate

EDUCATION

University of Denver College of Law, J.D. 1983
Order of St. Ives

University of Colorado, B.S. 1977
cum laude