Dave Bower is the recipient of the Bill Ritter Public Service Award, which will be awarded at the 2016 Rams Juris Doctor Networking Dinner hosted by Colorado State University. Dave has spent countless hours mentoring undergraduate and law students as they pursue careers in the legal profession. He is also active in the CSU community, volunteering for the ASCSU Alumni Council that advises the student government and serving as a board member for the Boulder County Ram Network. Dave is always willing to help out in local classrooms for students of any level, including teaching classes on water rights at the Vail Mountain School and land use planning to Boulder high school students on Law Day. He has also worked with Poudre Valley School District educators on how to teach their own students about water and water rights issues relevant to Colorado citizens.
Represented the Seller of a significant Colorado water rights portfolio. Marketed, found an institutional buyer, and sold to that buyer a strategic portion of the water rights owned by the Seller in a $13,000,000.00 transaction. This complex multi-party transaction involved negotiation of the transaction, preparation of all contract and conveyance documents, obtaining multiple regulatory, third-party and legal consents, and consummating the transaction in less than forty-five days from contract execution to close of escrow.
Negotiated and successfully closed prestigious non-profit athletic organization’s acquisition of neighboring non-profit’s facilities and assets, including provision of counsel regarding deal structure, preparation and negotiation of the asset purchase agreement and related conveyancing instruments, and assistance during the associated refinancing process.
Over a three-year period, prosecuted the first change of water rights on a historical irrigation ditch in East Boulder County. Successfully negotiated stipulated decree with fifteen opposers, addressing issues including allocation of water rights from commingled water supplies and administration of retained historical irrigation return flows.