Founding Member & Chairman
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Giovanni represents entrepreneurs, emerging growth companies, banks, and local, national, and international companies across a broad range of industries. He provides his clients with comprehensive and cost-effective counsel, working as a strategic adviser to boards of directors, C-Suite executives, and general counsel. His practice focuses on construction law, corporate law, and complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Giovanni assists his corporate clients with business formation, structuring strategic alliances, commercial and intellectual property transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and creating and protecting trade secrets and other intellectual property. He also represents privately held companies with private placements and financing alternatives, including secured and unsecured credit facilities and debt or equity offerings, and SEC issues. Giovanni has experience counseling clients on exit strategies that enable them to monetize their investments, restructure, reorganize, and recapitalize. Giovanni is a founding partner of BHGR and is currently the firm’s Chairman and General Counsel. He served as BHGR’s Managing Partner from 2016-2023. During his tenure as Managing Partner, Giovanni steered the firm through the COVID-19 pandemic as well as global economic volatility and societal changes. Under his leadership, the firm nearly doubled in size, embraced a hybrid work model, and became one of the first Colorado law firms to transition to a four-day work week.