Liane L. Heggy

Bio

Liane Heggy leads our tax practice, bringing a special combination of tax expertise and business experience to her work. She assists start-up companies and businesses at all stages of development, advising her clients on a broad range of business, corporate, partnership, and tax matters. She also represents clients in controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and state and local taxing authorities.

Prior to joining the firm in May 2011, Liane practiced at Jacobs Chase, LLC and Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP in Denver as well as the Washington D.C. offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. She spent several years as the manager of an import-export business located in southern California and Central America before attending law school.

Liane is originally and always an Iowa farm kid, and attended the University of Kansas for three years before following a Marine to the East Coast. She enjoys outdoor activities of all kinds, especially digging in her garden, golf, softball and hiking; and indoors, enjoys baking and watching college hoops.

Practice Areas

  • Federal income taxation of business operations in all forms
  • Tax and business planning for new businesses
  • Tax and business planning for acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations
  • Joint ventures through partnerships and limited liability companies
  • Executive compensation, non-qualified deferred comp plans and equity comp plans
  • Private equity structuring and operations
  • General business and contract matters
  • Company governance and owner matters in corporations, LLCs and partnerships

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado
  • Virginia
  • District of Columbia
  • U.S. Tax Court

Education

  • LLM Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 1996
  • J.D., cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, 1994
  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland, 1990
  • University of Maryland Graduate School Fellow, 1985-1986
  • M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, 1985
  • B.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, 1984

Affiliations

  • Colorado Bar Association
  • Virginia Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • International Fiscal Association
  • Association for Corporate Growth

Awards

  • “Top Women Lawyers 2010” Law Week Colorado 
  • Best Lawyers in America for 2010 and 2011 in the area of tax law 
  • "Woman of Distinction" 2009 Denver Business Journal 

Representative Transactions

  • Lovell Minnick Partners LLC, a California-based private equity firm, in connection with its firm structure, as well as the acquisition, ongoing investment and disposition of numerous portfolio companies
  • Represent management group in connection with formation and initial capital raise of $100 million fund for investment in Asian equities
  • Represent private equity fund in connection with structure and funding of investment in India, Russia and Western Europe, working closely with tax and legal advisors in various jurisdictions
  • Represent engineering, manufacture and construction firm in disposition of business and assets located in US, Canada, and Australia
  • Shareholders in connection with the sale of a $10 million custom specialty battery manufacturer to a private equity concern
  • The majority owner on the sale of the master-planned golf course and real estate development in Eagle County, Colorado, together with the subsequent wind-up of 20-plus companies that were part of the ownership structure
  • A Denver-based sports surface company in acquiring a competing business in Utah for a combination of cash, short-term and long-term notes and earn-out payments.
  • An affiliate of Intrawest Corporation in a $338 million construction financing of the Honua Kai development project in Maui, Hawaii 
  • Various clients in settlement of partnership disputes
  • An independent oil company in connection with application for $100 million of tax credits through a joint venture with a Native American-owned energy company
  • Numerous clients in private offerings of corporate, partnership or LLC securities
Liane enjoys serving as general outside counsel, and in this role has represented:
  • Management in connection with the formation of a management company and holding company, and their acquisition of a portable LED video screen business from its original owner in Massachusetts
  • A start-up company in connection with the structure, private equity offering, contract negotiations and a construction loan to build an oil extrusion and biodiesel production facility in southwest Colorado
  • A start-up company that develops and sells laboratory kits for use outside traditional school settings, in connection with shareholder matters and numerous contract negotiations
  • A leading investment bank and turnaround management firm that serves distressed middle market companies nationwide 
  • A medical research start-up in connection with the structure, private equity offering, contract negotiations, lease negotiations
  • Management in connection with their buyout of the founders of an advanced materials development company