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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.

Assist client private investor group in closing $2 million private equity syndication as part of a $5.65 million purchase of a 54 unit, three-building Front Range apartment complex, and the related closing of a $4.237 million acquisition and development credit facility.

Negotiated and closed on a 35 acre parcel in C Lazy U Chimney Rock Cabins, an exclusive community adjacent to the C Lazy U Guest Ranch.

Put 210-acre parcel in Grand County under conservation easement with The Nature Conservancy. Last portion of staged conservation easements encumbering a total of approximately 740 acres.

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.

Assist client private investor group in closing $18.4 million private equity syndication as part of a $43 million purchase of a 220 unit Front Range apartment complex, and the related closing of a $42 million acquisition and development credit facility from a national institutional lender.