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David R. Rudd

Ballard Spahr, LLP
Utah
Mergers & Acquisitions
201 South Main Street, Suite 800, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

David R. Rudd

Ballard Spahr, LLP
Utah
Mergers & Acquisitions
201 South Main Street, Suite 800, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
801 531-3000
ruddd@ballardspahr.com
www.ballardspahr.com
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David R. Rudd

Partner

One Utah Center, Suite 800

201 South Main Street

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Direct: 801.517.6829 | Fax: 801.596.6829

ruddd@ballardspahr.com

Areas of Focus
·         Business and Finance

·         Energy and Project Finance

·         Life Sciences and Technology

·         Securities

·         Emerging Growth and Private Capital

·         Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity

·         P3/Infrastructure

David R. Rudd practices exclusively in the area of complex domestic and international business transactions in a wide variety of legal fields and industrial sectors. Mr. Rudd regularly advises clients on general business matters, mergers, acquisitions (including venture capital and private equity), private and public equity and debt financings, securities, joint ventures, and distribution, agency, and licensing matters.

Mr. Rudd has substantial experience in representing U.S. clients in virtually every major international market around the globe. He also has extensive experience with representing significant non-U.S. clients in both domestic and international business transactions. Having lived abroad for over 10 years, Mr. Rudd speaks Spanish fluently and is familiar with international cultural issues and business practices.

Representative Matters:

For a list of representative matters, please see www.ballardspahr.com.

Professional Activities:

American Bar Association

District of Columbia Bar Association

Inter-American Bar Association

Utah State Bar Association, Business Law Section, past Chair

Office of U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Trade Advisory Group (advises on NAFTA and GATT)

Utah Technology Council (formerly Utah Information Technology Association), International Special Interest Group, Co-chair

State of Utah, Securities Advisory Committee

Mountain West Venture Capital Network, Officer

Recognition & Accomplishments:

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, corporate/M&A law, 2003-2018

The Best Lawyers in America, corporate law, M&A law, and venture capital law, 2006-2018; Lawyer of the Year, Venture Capital Law, 2017

Utah Business, consistent recognition as "Our Legal Elite," international and M&A law

Speaking Engagements:

Frequent lecturer and presenter, the David Eccles Graduate School of Business at University of Utah, World Trade Center and at many leading conferences on topics related to international and domestic business and legal matters.

Frequent presenter/lecturer on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Export/Import Controls, Ant-Money Laundering and other cross-border legal topics.

Co-author of publication “Doing Business in Mexico.”

Board Memberships:

World Trade Center, Board of Trustees

Mexico Utah Business Council, Chairman ex officio, Board of Trustees

U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Utah Advisory Counsel

 

Wayne Brown Institute, Board of Trustees

Education:

Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D. 1982)

Brigham Young University (B.A. 1979)

Languages

Fluent in written and spoken Spanish

Admissions:

District of Columbia

Utah

 

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