Sequoia Legal, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Sequoia Legal is a business law firm in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Its work covers corporate and commercial matters for companies operating in and beyond the state. The firm advises clients across Colorado, including Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Fort Collins, Lakewood, Aspen, Aurora, Pueblo, and Greeley.

Four areas anchor the practice: business formation, contracts and agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and trademarks. The firm also handles international business law. That side of the work includes export control, international trade, OFAC, FCPA, CFIUS, and voluntary disclosures.

Healthcare compliance sits alongside the corporate work. Partner Hunter Boone covers that area, along with anti-kickback regulations and international trade laws.

What these matters involve

Business formation work generally starts with choosing an entity type and filing with the state. Operating agreements, bylaws, and equity documents follow. Ownership questions get settled on paper early, before the money and the disagreements arrive.

Mergers and acquisitions run on a longer clock. Letters of intent come first, then due diligence, then the purchase agreement and closing documents. Deal counsel typically carries a client through each of those phases, and Nick Vail's bio describes that kind of end-to-end role.

Export control and sanctions work has a different rhythm. Agencies such as OFAC set the rules, and companies that discover a problem can file a voluntary disclosure. Getting the facts straight before that filing matters a great deal, and it is careful, document-heavy work.

How the team is built

Founding Partner Andrew Lopez leads the firm. He advises foreign and domestic companies, organizations, and entrepreneurs on corporate and international regulatory and transactional issues. Hunter Boone is the firm's partner and works on general corporate matters, healthcare compliance, international trade laws, and anti-kickback regulations.

Five attorneys hold of counsel positions. Brian Fonville has worked as a transactional lawyer in finance and corporate matters in New York City, and his work covers cross-border commercial transactions, software licenses, and investment funds.

Laura A. Lopez has worked as a litigator at Davis Polk and Wardwell and as General Counsel of a private global merchant advisory and investment firm. She advises on a range of issues affecting businesses, including dispute resolution. That litigation background gives the firm a voice in the room when a commercial disagreement turns into a real fight.

The wider bench

Josh Wallenstein is Managing Member of the Wallenstein Law Group and works on compliance and risk management issues. Nick Vail is a corporate and transactional attorney focused on mergers and acquisitions, and he guides clients through all deal phases. His work also covers business formation, governance, and contract drafting for clients nationally and internationally.

Christina Murray is a recent graduate of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She received the Irving P. Andrews Award for Outstanding Law Graduate and the Student Leadership award. Hers is the one law school the site names.

Caroline Baker is the firm's associate. She advises small and mid-size businesses through the business life cycle, and her focus areas are commercial transactions, contract drafting and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters. Her bio describes work spanning formation through dissolution.

The clients the firm names

Sequoia Legal works with small businesses, startups, software companies, manufacturing businesses, and mid-sized companies. That mix tracks the practice areas closely. Software companies bring licensing and IP questions. Manufacturers bring export and trade questions.

The firm describes bringing large-firm experience to small and medium-sized businesses. Laura A. Lopez's time at Davis Polk and Wardwell and Brian Fonville's New York transactional background give that description something concrete behind it. In my opinion, that pairing is the clearest thing about how the firm positions itself: senior transactional experience applied at a scale where a company might otherwise get a junior associate.

Colorado and beyond

The Colorado reach is broad for a single-office firm. Named service areas run from the Front Range cities out to Aspen and Pueblo. Vail's bio mentions national and international clients, and the international regulatory practice points the same direction.

What the record shows

The firm says it has served businesses for more than 25 years. Its site names no founding year, so a reviewer has the claim and the roster to work with and little else on chronology.

The office runs by appointment, Monday through Friday. There are no social media links on the site. The attorney bios carry the detail instead, and they are specific about what each lawyer handles.

Three attorneys publish direct email addresses: Andrew Lopez, Hunter Boone, and Christina Murray. Direct contact routes to named lawyers are a small signal, and a useful one. A prospective client knows who picks up.

Reading the roster

The of counsel structure shapes what this firm can offer. Five of eight attorneys hold that title, which means the firm draws on experienced lawyers who keep their own practices. Wallenstein's own law group is the clear example.

As a reviewer, I read that structure as a firm assembling depth by area rather than by headcount. Healthcare compliance, sanctions work, fund transactions, and M&A each map to a specific person on the roster. A company with one of those problems can see which lawyer would handle it before the first call.

What the site does not offer is case results, settlement figures, or client counts. For a business law practice, that is unremarkable. Corporate work rarely produces the kind of public numbers that litigation does, and confidentiality covers most deals.

Who this firm suits

A Colorado company forming an entity, buying or selling a business, or protecting a mark will find those services named directly. The trademark and contracts work covers everyday needs. The M&A practice covers the bigger moments.

Companies with cross-border exposure have a narrower set of options in Denver, and this firm names that work plainly. Export control, FCPA, CFIUS, and OFAC questions carry real consequences, and having counsel who has handled voluntary disclosures matters when something surfaces in an internal review.

Healthcare businesses facing compliance and anti-kickback questions have a named attorney to reach at the firm. Boone's bio ties those two areas together. Sequoia Legal, LLC offers a free consultation from its Greenwood Village office.