Allen Sparkman

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atty asparkmanAllen Sparkman specializes in negotiation and drafting in connection with complex business and real estate transactions, including Regulation D and private securities offerings; mergers and acquisitions; and commercial and financial transactions; and counseling business and nonprofit enterprises, and the owners and managers thereof, in complex transactions, on organizational, operational, and procedural matters, and on relations inter se. Income tax, philanthropic, estate, and succession planning; asset protection; legislative drafting. Counseling with respect to ethics and professional responsibility.

EDUCATION AND MILITARY SERVICE:

Born Corsicana, Texas, November 16, 1945

A.B., History, Princeton University, 1968
J.D., with high honors, University of Texas, 1973 (Vice Chancellor; teaching assistant in legal research and writing and appellate advocacy; associate editor, Texas Law Review, and member, Order of the Coif)
United States Army, First Lieutenant (1969-1971)

ADMITTED:

  • Colorado
  • Texas

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

  • American Bar Association
    • Member: Business Law Section and its Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations; Tax Law Section; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division and its Agricultural, Business Law, and Estate & Financial Planning Committees; Center for Professional Responsibility Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
  • Colorado Bar Association
    • Member: Agricultural and Rural Law Section (chair, 2004-2006)
    • Member: Business Law Section (chair 2007-2009)
    • Member: Health Law Section (chair 1993-1994)
    • Member: Ethics Committee
    • Member: Dispute Resolution Section
    • Member: Taxation Law Section
    • Member: Trust & Estate Section
    • Member: Colorado Business Corporation Act Committee
    • Member: Limited Liability Company Act Committee
    • Member: Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act Committee
    • Member: Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act Committee
    • Member: Revised Uniform Partnership Act Committee
  • Colorado Bar Foundation
  • State Bar of Texas
    • Member: Alternative Dispute Resolution Section; Business Law Section; Health Law Section; Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section; Tax Section
  • Other
  • Member: Colorado Secretary of State Business Advisory Committee
  • Member: Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel
  • Member: Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council (president 2002-2003)

 

  • Listings: The Best Lawyers in America; Colorado Super Lawyers

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

He is a frequent author and lecturer on corporate, tax and ethics issues. Mr. Sparkman currently co-chairs the Duties of Directors and Officers and Conflicts of Interest subcommittee of the Colorado Business Corporation Act Committee, which is undertaking a comprehensive comparison of the CBCA with current provisions of the Revised Model Business Corporation Act. Mr. Sparkman is the Colorado reporter for STATE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY & PARTNERSHIP LAWS (Aspen Publishers) and STATE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP LAWS (Aspen Publishers). Mr. Sparkman was a participating member of the Colorado Bar Association drafting committees that prepared the text various statutes regarding the Colorado Limited Liability Company Act (amendments 2002-2007), The Colorado Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act (1997), The Colorado Corporations and Associations Act (amendments 2003-2008) and other House Bills in regards to various Colorado Revised Statutes. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver College of Law.