Charles Knight
Counsel for companies and communities
Corporate and real estate law in Denver — from startup formation to mergers and acquisitions — alongside a long commitment to affordable housing.
The short version
What connects corporate law and affordable housing?
The training began with a degree in experimental psychology at UC Santa Barbara, then a JD and an MBA at UCLA. The practice built on it covers the full life of a company — incorporation and founder counsel, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate — sharpened by years co-founding and running companies as chief executive, chief financial officer, and general counsel.
The steadier thread is housing and the people it serves. He was general counsel of the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, sits today as a Commissioner of the Denver Housing Authority, and serves on the board of Urban Peak, which works with young people experiencing homelessness in Denver. The teaching came out of all of it.
Writing
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Law Firms Are Not Dead Yet! (But the billable hour might be close)
Almost three years ago, I wrote a blog post for our firm entitled “Will Artificial Intelligence Kill All the Lawyers?” The premise…
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A D-Day Wake Up Call
Two years ago, I wrote a blog entitled “Not All Who Wander are Lost” in which I extolled the benefits of travel…
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Business Transition Planning
As a member of the Baby Boom generation, I am advising more and more Millennials who are exploring business acquisitions; primarily involving…