Alan W. Peryam has over 35 years of broad legal experience. As a corporate and business lawyer in private practice for more than 30 years, Mr. Peryam has gained a keen insight into problems faced by business clients, their owners, employees and investors.

Mr. Peryam’s practice focuses on entrepreneurial, corporate and business law, including a full range of business transactions, business entity formations, mergers and acquisitions, and advising and implementing capital raising, business growth and development, and related business issues. Transaction size has ranged from a few thousand to a hundred million dollars. Over the last 30 years more than $600,000,000 in cash and securities have been received by clients in various business transactions in which Mr. Peryam was counsel.

Mr. Peryam has experience and knowledge required to advise business clients in handling problems and to address questions which arise through the operation of most businesses, particularly including state corporate, LLC, and partnership law, state and federal securities laws and other laws and government regulations which may affect the formation or operation of a business entity or a financing transaction. Mr. Peryam is particularly effective in suggesting creative and innovative solutions to difficult business decisions and mediating acceptable resolutions to issues before they become larger, costlier problems. As an experienced business lawyer with litigation experience, he is adept at assisting clients to assess the advisability and risks of litigation, given the special circumstances of a particular client.

Following graduation first in his class at University of Wyoming law school in 1969 he served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. J. Hickey, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Judicial Circuit. He then served over three and one-half years from 1970-74 as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles, California, where, as a representative of the Justice Department, he handled a wide range of civil litigation from habeas corpus, immigration and military law matters, to complex aircraft accident and fraud litigation. In 1974 he returned to Denver to join Hopper and Kanouff, a Denver law firm specializing in business and securities law, where he became the fourth partner in 1975 and remained until 1996, when the firm dissolved. He engaged in private practice as a sole practitioner, Alan W. Peryam, LLC from 1996 until joining Zupkus and Angell, P.C. in mid-2007

Experience:

College: Bachelor of Science, cum laude in Animal Science, University of Wyoming 1966
Law: Juris Doctorate, summa cum laude, University of Wyoming, 1969

Employment:

1969-1970 Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Judicial Circuit (Cheyenne)
1970-1974 Assistant United States Attorney, Central District of California (Los Angeles)
1974-1996 Partner, Hopper and Kanouff, PC* Denver, Colorado
* a/k/a Hopper, Kanouff, Smith, and Peryam and Hopper, Kanouff, Smith, Peryam, Terry and Duncan
1996-2007 Alan W. Peryam LLC, Denver, Colorado

Personal: Born April 15, 1945, Rawlins, Wyoming
Single, father of three adult children

Interests: Owns a family ranch in southern Wyoming, skiing, fly fishing, travel, outdoor activities and exercise.

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