Kristin Lentz

Kristin Lentz has been co-managing partner of Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP since 2017.  She is a partner in the firm’s Transactions Department, with a practice that focuses on mergers and acquisitions and debt financing transactions.  She often serves as outside corporate counsel to both public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including the manufacturing, industrial services, and software and technology industries. She has significant experience in the oil and gas industry. 

In connection with Davis Graham’s membership in the Lex Mundi network, Kristin currently serves on Lex Mundi’s Board of Directors and its Executive Committee. She joined Davis Graham in 2000 after serving as a law clerk for Justice Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr. of the Colorado Supreme Court. 

Mergers & Acquisitions

Kristin represents public and private companies, as well as management teams, in connection with structuring, negotiating, and documenting the purchase and sale of businesses in a multitude of different structures, including mergers, equity sales, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. She often represents clients in connection with successive, strategic add-on acquisitions. Kristin has significant experience with mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions involving public and private oil and gas companies. Her representative transactions include: 

• • Represented several private-equity backed oil and gas companies in the acquisition of assets in a variety of geographic areas, including Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Texas.
  • Represented a subsidiary of an Alaska Native Corporation in multiple acquisitions of privately held companies engaged in the industrial services industry. 
  • Represented a Denver-based sand and gravel company in several acquisitions, including the $127 million acquisition of a concrete and quarries business. 
  • Represented a private-equity owned healthcare services company in numerous add-on acquisitions. 
  • Represented a private-equity backed industrial services company in several bolt-on acquisitions.
  • Represented several publicly held companies in sale of the company transactions, including companies engaged in the software services industry and energy industries.

Debt Financings

Kristin also represents clients in connection with the negotiation and documentation of bank financings, including secured and unsecured term and revolving credit facilities. Her experience in lending transactions includes the representation of borrowers in syndicated bank financings, with secured and unsecured senior and subordinated loans, and leveraged acquisitions. Some of Kristin’s representative transactions include: 

• • The representation of various private-equity backed and publicly held oil and gas companies in their senior credit facilities, with loan commitments ranging from $200 million to $2 billion. 
  • The representation of a privately held aggregates company in its revolving loan credit facility and term loan facility.
  • The representation of a software services company in its $40 million revolving loan credit facility. 
  • The representation of a healthcare services company in both a senior and second lien facility used to fund acquisitions and for general corporate purposes. 
  • The representation of a publicly held manufacturing company with operations in several foreign countries in its $300 million senior credit facility. 

Recognition & Affiliations

• • Leader in Their Field, Corporate M&A, Chambers USA, (2021-2024)
  • The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, (2024)
  • The Best Lawyers in America, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, (2020-2024)
  • Top Lawyer in Securities Law by 5280 (2024) 
  • “Raising the Bar” Award Honoree by the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation (2022)
  • Top Women in Energy by the Denver Business Journal (2020)
  • Who’s Who in Energy by the Denver Business Journal (2017)
  • Top Women Attorney by Law Week Colorado (2017)
  • Colorado Super Lawyers list by Thomson Reuters (2013-2017, 2020-2021)
  • American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Women’s Bar Association