We are pleased to announce that Steve Suneson has joined the firm’s Denver office as Partner in the Corporate & Transactional and International practices.
Mr. Suneson has more than two decades of experience in the areas of business law and commercial transactions, cross-border and international transactions, commercial contracts, secured transactions, general counsel services, M&A, along with corporate structure and governance. He has substantial cross-border and international experience assisting foreign companies, particularly Canadian, Australian, British, Swedish and other European companies, who are doing business in the U.S. He routinely represents companies in the Fortune 500 and the Global 500.
Mr. Suneson’s international transactions practice focuses on the following sectors: technology, software development and licensing, manufacturing, distribution, retail, apparel, energy, services and construction. He routinely deals with complex cross-border issues such as U.S.-foreign nation income tax treaties, U.S. withholding tax on payments to foreign ownership, intercompany cross-border agreements, and transfer pricing agreements as well as other complex cross-border legal and tax issues. Mr. Suneson also works with Colorado and U.S. business owners who want to sell or buy their businesses, need financing, want to expand abroad, or complete other complex business transactions abroad. His experience in this regard includes export control review, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), country of origin marking, technology transfer, foreign corporate structure and other U.S.-foreign legal matters.
Mr. Suneson also provides outside general counsel services to foreign-owned companies who are doing business in the US.
Mr. Suneson also has extensive experience in both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and corporate reorganizations. This experience includes a variety of M&A transactions, such as contested and negotiated acquisitions and tender offers, takeover defenses, leveraged buyouts, corporate spin-offs, corporate auctions, international M&A transactions, and strategic acquisition and divestiture transactions.
Prior to joining Potomac Law, Mr. Suneson was a Shareholder at Jones & Keller PC. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School and his B.A., cum laude and with honors and distinction, from the University of Colorado Denver.
