Education | | J.D., 2001, University of Colorado School of Law | | B.A., 1997, Middlebury College, College Scholar |
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Distinctions | Colorado SuperLawyers, Rising Star, 2009
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, 2009 Impact Denver Leadership Program
Managing Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
2008 Downtown Denver Leadership Program |
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Memberships | American Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
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| Aaron's practice focuses on the acquisition, financing, leasing, development and disposition of various real estate assets, including apartment and office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, casinos and vacant land. He works with both public and private clients on complex commercial real estate matters on a local, regional and national basis.
Aaron was lead real estate counsel in connection with the recent $344 million financing of the new Ralph L. Carr Justice Complex and the new Colorado History Center.
On behalf of both landlord and tenant clients, Aaron has negotiated office leases that, in aggregate, exceed over 5 million square feet, and he regularly represents clients on many of the largest office leases in Denver. Notable among these lease transactions, Aaron represented Xcel Energy and its subsidiaries in connection with Xcel Energy’s new lease of approximately 350,000 rentable square feet of office space for Xcel Energy’s new regional headquarters to be located at 1800 Larimer – which was the largest office lease in the central business district during 2008 and the first Platinum LEED-certified core and shell project in Denver.
During 2008, Aaron and Brownstein’s REIT team represented a publicly-traded, Denver-based real estate investment trust in the negotiation, sale and closing of more than $433 million in sales involving 33 apartment complexes located across the United States. |
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Representative Matters | | Represented Public Service Company of Colorado, an Xcel Energy company, in connection with the design, construction and leasing of a new 400,000 square foot office building for its new regional headquarters. Designed with a LEED-CS Platinum-certified shell, it is the first LEED Platinum high-rise office building in the country. | | Served as special counsel in connection with the delivery of a total of $338 million Certificates of Participation (Ralph L. Carr Justice Complex and Colorado History Center Projects) evidencing proportionate interests in base rentals and other revenues under an annually renewable master build-to-suit lease purchase agreement between CHS/CJC Building, Inc. as lessor and the State of Colorado as lessee. | | During 2008, Brownstein represented a publicly-traded, Denver-based real estate investment trust in the negotiation, sale and closing of more than $433 million in sales involving 33 apartment complexes located across the United States. | | Served as securities and real estate counsel to Elevation Integrated Hardware Block, LLC in connection with the loan, joint venture structuring and private placement to finance the acquisition of Hardware Block Condominiums at 1515 Wazee Street in Denver. | | Represented Public Service Company of Colorado, an Xcel Energy company, during the lease negotiation for a new regional headquarters building, designed with a LEED-CS Platinum-certified shell, located at 1800 Larimer Street in Denver. Brownstein also represented the company in the proposed sale of their building located at 550 15th Street, also in Denver. |
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Publications & Presentations | "Going Green: Legal Concepts and Issues in Green Building," panel presentation, NAIOP, August 19, 2009
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