Colby Clark

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Spencer Fane attorney Colby Clark

Overview

Colby Clark advises clients on a variety of legal strategies including venture and structure financings, corporate formation, reorganization, business plan optimization, and mergers and acquisitions. Drawing on his personal experience as an executive and business owner, Colby customizes his legal counsel to challenges from emerging growth companies to large public companies with independent directors.

Colby has worked on merger and acquisition deals ranging from $1 million to over $300 million, including preparing and assisting in management presentations to over 130 private equity firms, to which he has helped several companies sell to PE and PE-backed companies (including one deal where he was an executive, which sold for over $135 million); venture financings from seed and private placements of over $100 million; structured financings including securitizations (including real property) of over $200 million; and even capital raising and insurance-related surplus notes of over $100 million.

Colby often gives corporate governance advice to officers and directors nationwide, with recent representation on behalf of an independent board member of a Fortune 100 publicly traded company.

Colby earned his Juris Doctor from the J. Rueben Clark Law School where he served as the lead note and comment editor for the BYU Law Review.

Credentials

Education

  • Brigham Young University – J. Reuben Clark School of Law, 2001 (J.D.)
  • Brigham Young University, 1997 (B.A.)

Bar Admissions

  • Utah