Big Law Raids Colorado as Tech Venture Capital Grows Business

July 13, 2022, 9:30 AM UTC

Tech and life sciences companies luring venture capital to the Denver area are seeing an unintended offshoot of their success—lawyers are coming to town for new business.

Washington-founded Crowell & Moring opened an outpost in Denver this year and Bay Area-headquartered Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati planted a flag in nearby Boulder, Colo. Arnold & Porter and WilmerHale doubled the size of their Denver offices to 36 and 35 lawyers, respectively, in the past five years.

Life sciences and tech entrepreneurs are in a “virtuous cycle” of growing companies that sometimes break off with new ideas to form startups, said ...

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