Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar Elects 2026 Board of Directors

Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar shareholders have elected the following nine lawyers to the Firm's Board of Directors to serve a one year term: Brent N. Bateman, Bradley R. Cahoon, Ashley M. Gregson, Rick L. Guerisoli, Jeffrey M. Jones, N. Todd Leishman, Joshua E. Little, Sarah W. Matthews and Matthew J. Orme.

Bateman is a co-chair of Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar's Real Estate practice group. He practices land use, zoning and development law, serving developers, builders, contractors, landowners and private citizens who need assistance navigating interactions with local governments. He serves on the board of directors of the Utah Land Use Institute, the Utah Valley Home Builders Association, and the Utah Land Use and Eminent Domain Advisory Board, and previously served as the Utah Property Rights Ombudsman. Bateman is familiar with the laws of zoning, construction, condemnation, development, roads, easements, takings, boundaries, impact fees, referenda, municipal incorporation, homeowners' associations, and annexation. He regularly conducts appeals of land use decisions both in administrative settings and in court.

Cahoon is a co-leader of Dentons' USA Environmental and Mining groups. He is an environmental lawyer who represents clients throughout the United States. He has a record of using his litigation, administrative, regulatory and government relations skills to help his clients achieve their business objectives. He litigates CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, toxic tort, civil and criminal enforcement actions, and citizen and environmental group lawsuits. He has handled environmental matters affecting complex business transactions in multiple states across the country and internationally. He advises on purchasing, selling, financing and cleaning up contaminated properties, minimizing environmental liability risks, and negotiating pollution insurance.

Gregson is a member of the Firm's Litigation practice. She has extensive experience handling all phases of litigation in Utah state, federal, and appellate courts as well as administrative proceedings. She helps clients navigate complex and contentious cases, including breach of contract, constitutional claims, employment discrimination defense, enforcement of post-employment restrictive covenants, white collar criminal defense, government investigations, governmental immunity, access to government records, and judgment collection. Gregson also consults with Utah employers regarding compliance with state and federal employment laws in all facets of the employment relationship, including employee hiring, employee handbooks and policies, internal investigations, separation or termination, and defending employers in administrative proceedings and litigation relating to employee claims.

Guerisoli is a member of the Firm's Corporate and Real Estate practices. He represents individuals and private and public entities in business matters such as entity formation and operation, corporate governance, contract preparation and negotiation, as well as corporate finance and business combination transactions, including private securities offerings, debt and equity financing transactions, mergers, stock/asset acquisitions and other corporate partnering transactions. Guerisoli regularly advises commercial and residential real estate developers and investors, governmental entities and other property owners in connection with a variety of real estate related transactions. He has also developed a niche practice advising social media influencers in connection with their commercial agreements and other related business matters.

Jones is a member of the Firm's Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Venture Technology and Emerging Growth practices. He also serves on the Firm's Executive Committee. Jones represents both public and private companies, including start-up and early-stage companies, in the information technology, restaurant, manufacturing, retail, dental services, controlled environment agriculture, vaping devices and real estate brokerage sectors. He regularly advises companies with respect to corporate governance, public disclosure, middle market M&A and capital raising transactions, distribution, procurement, licensing and similar commercial agreements, restructuring transactions, equity compensation arrangements and risk management issues.

Leishman is a member of the Firm's Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Venture Technology and Emerging Growth practices, is Managing Partner of the Dentons Salt Lake City office and serves on the Firm's Executive Committee and the US Region Board of Directors. His practice focuses on middle market M&A transactions representing both buyers and sellers, including strategic and financial acquirers as well as closely held and family-owned sellers and targets. Leishman also advises corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as majority and minority owner groups on entity governance issues such as shareholder and partner disputes and "corporate divorces". When needed, he works closely with litigation teams in connection with corporate governance lawsuits. He also negotiates and drafts buy-sell and other shareholder agreements in closely held entities and advises on other general corporate, transactional and contract matters.

Little is a member of the Firm's Corporate practice and serves as the Firm's President and CEO. He also serves on the Firm's Executive Committee and as a member of Dentons' Global Board. He advises businesses in meeting their strategic objectives and focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, public company compliance, private equity transactions, securities offerings, commercial contracts and licensing, corporate governance and other general corporate matters. Little has extensive experience representing private and public companies in stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, mergers and other reorganizations. He also regularly assists technology companies in negotiation of commercial and licensing contracts.

Matthews is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property practice and serves on the Firm's Executive Committee. She focuses on patent prosecution, including drafting and prosecuting patents related to the chemical arts and handles other aspects of patent law, including validity and infringement opinions, counseling, due diligence, and patent litigation at the district court and Federal Circuit level. Matthews is experienced in intellectual property licensing, the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, intellectual property portfolio management, intellectual property opinions, domain name dispute proceedings under the ICANN, and DMCA take-downs.

Orme is a member of the Firm's Commercial Litigation and Employment practices. He represents clients in disputes involving a variety of legal issues including contracts, business torts, real estate, business organizations and employment law. Orme has developed a specialty in representing employers against former employees or competitors in matters involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation, theft or infringement of intellectual property and breach of restrictive covenants.

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