
Background
Provides tailored tax solutions for businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Skilled at identifying tax-driven opportunities and solving problems at the intersection of business and a rapidly evolving tax environment. Experience with hundreds of clients across a variety of industries.
Tenley advises clients ranging from individuals and emerging businesses to large corporations on strategies to efficiently and effectively achieve their tax and business planning goals. She counsels clients in a broad range of tax and other corporate needs, including mergers and acquisitions, tax aspects of real estate transactions (including like-kind exchanges and conservation easements), partnership and joint venture formation and taxation, tax controversies, tax-exempt entities, and other tax planning and advice for business entities and individuals.
Representative Matters
- Represented Therm-x of California, Inc., a manufacturer of temperature sensors, industrial heaters and process control products and systems, in the sale to Backer EHP Inc., a subsidiary of NIBE Industrier AB, a Swedish public company (NIBEb.ST).
- Represented NexusTek Holdings, LLC in the sale of its LLC interests to Abry Partners.
- Represented Global Employment Solutions, a portfolio company of TZP Group and leading provider of professional staffing services, in its acquisition of the Halo Group, an IT staffing company.
- Served as tax counsel to KSE Radio Ventures, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kroenke Sports Entertainment, LLC, in its acquisition of Denver broadcast radio stations KIMN-FM 100.3, KXKL-FM 105.1 and KWOF-FM 92.5 from Wilks Broadcast Group, LLC.
- Served as tax counsel to Encore Consumer Capital, LP in the sale of its portfolio company, FreshKO Produce Services, Inc., a distributor of high-quality fresh produce throughout central and northern California, to CS Wholesale Grocers, Inc., the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the United States.
- Counsel to Victory Park Capital Advisors in the sale of its portfolio company, Global Employment Holdings, Inc., to TZP Group.
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Credentials
Education
- LL.M., Boston University School of Law, Taxation
- J.D., Boston College Law School, cum laude
- B.A., Tufts University, summa cum laude
Admissions
- Massachusetts
- Colorado
Memberships
Colorado Women’s Bar AssociationCommunity Involvement
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Director, Board of Directors, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra
Former Board Member, Young Lawyers Division Board of the Colorado Lawyers Committee
Recognition
AWARDS:
“Tenley is a reliable and remarkably competent attorney who we depend on for navigating intricate tax matters with confidence.” – Chambers USA, 2024
5280 Top Lawyers, 2024-2025
Chambers USA, 2024-2025
Executive Council of the Colorado Bar Association Section of Taxation
Massachusetts Super Lawyer, Rising Star, 2010-2011
