Bruce D. Stocks

Bruce Stocks is a partner at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. His practice emphasizes corporate transactions involving private companies and investors, including mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, joint ventures, and equity and debt financings, as well as corporate governance matters. 

Bruce has extensive experience representing private equity funds, fundless sponsors, and other private equity investors in investment transactions and financings, joint ventures, restructurings, and sales of portfolio companies. He also represents portfolio companies in add-on acquisitions, financings, and other transactions. 

A significant portion of Bruce’s practice currently involves the hospitality industry, where he represents investors and owners, operators, and developers of hotel properties in connection with joint ventures, debt and equity financings, acquisitions, dispositions, and hotel management agreements.  

Bruce also has significant experience representing a major gold mining company in acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, royalties, and other commercial transactions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, Japan, and Africa. 

Bruce has earned the AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-AVVO and has been named a “Leader in Their Field” in the area of Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA, every year since its inception. 

Bruce has also been selected for inclusion in Colorado Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America® in Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law. He was named by The Best Lawyers® as the 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” for Mergers & Acquisitions Law in Denver. 

Recent Representative Transactions

• Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Under Canvas, Inc. 
• Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisition and subsequent sale of the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida.
• Represented KSL Capital Partners in its sale of Davidson Hospitality Group to Nautic Partners.
• Represented KSL Capital Partners in the formation of a joint venture and the joint venture’s acquisition of Snowmass Base Village. 
• Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisition of the Blue Mountain ski resort in Pennsylvania.
• Represented KSL Capital Partners in its acquisition of the Camelback ski resort, lodge, and waterpark in Pennsylvania. 
• Represented Davidson Hospitality Group in the formation of a hotel joint venture with a private equity investor.
• Represented Sage Hospitality and Sage Hotel Capital in connection with several joint ventures for acquisitions or development of hotel and mixed-use properties. 
• Represented Sage Hospitality in sales of hotels, including The Nines Hotel in Portland, Oregon. 
• Represented Gart Capital Partners in its growth equity investment in Topo Designs. 
• Represented Gart Capital Partners in the sale of the Powderhorn ski resort in Colorado. 
• Represented Gart Capital Partners in its acquisition of Work World, a California based workwear focused specialty retailer. 
• Represented Newmont Corporation in the formation of Nevada Gold Mines LLC with Barrick Gold Corporation, involving substantially all of both parties’ properties and operations in northern Nevada, creating the world’s largest gold complex.
• Represented Newmont Corporation in its sale of its Akyem mine in the Republic of Ghana to Zijin Mining for up to $1 billion.
• Represented Newmont Corporation in the sale of Midas mine and the related ore milling facility located in Nevada to Klondex Mines. 
• Represented Newmont Corporation in its acquisition of Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine in Colorado from AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. for $820 million plus a royalty. 
• Represented Newmont Corporation in its sale of the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine in Teller County, Colorado to SSR Mining.
• Represented Newmont Corporation in connection with an investment by Sumitomo Corporation in Newmont’s subsidiary Minera Yanacocha SrL
• Represented Newmont Corporation In connection with multiple offshore joint ventures for exploration and mining.
• Represented Reliance Worldwide Corporation in connection with the purchase of Securus, Inc. d/b/a HOLDRITE. 
• Represented Reliance Worldwide Corporation in its acquisition of EZ-Flo International, a leading manufacturer of plumbing supplies and specialty plumbing products.  
• Represented Ensero Solutions, an environmental services company, in connection with its buyout from Alexco Resource Corp.
• Represented Ensero Solutions in connection with its sale to True Environmental.
• Represented CHB Capital Partners in its sale of Logic PD, Inc., an integrated design and manufacturing firm. 
• Represented CHB Capital Partners in its sale of Logic PD, Inc., an integrated electronics design and manufacturing firm.