Christine Amrhein
Partner | Corporate
christine.amrhein@pierferd.com
+1.720.719.9761 office
Denver
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About
Christine (Chris) Amrhein specializes in corporate law, complex commercial transactions, global business and legal strategy, and helping companies efficiently manage legal operations. She has over 30 years of legal and executive-level experience in multiple industries, including energy, healthcare software and technology, e-commerce, and global manufacturing.
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Chris handles complex commercial transactions as well as general legal operations, healthcare and e-commerce processing agreements, strategic alliances, global supply, and intellectual property license agreements. She also has extensive experience counseling business colleagues on practical ways to address legal issues, launch new products and services globally, and implement training and compliance programs.
Previously, Chris served as General Counsel of Advanced Emissions Solutions (now Arq, Inc. NASDAQ: ARQ) and has held legal and business leadership roles at The Timken Company, First Data and TriZetto (now Cognizant). Her wide breadth of hands-on experience gives her in-depth knowledge of the wide range of commercial and legal issues that can impact a business and solutions to address them.
Practices
Commercial Transactions
Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
Technology
Admissions
Colorado
Education
Executive Program, University of Virginia
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Juris Doctor, University of Pittsburgh
Pitt Law Alumni Scholarship
Honors, legal writing
Master of Arts, University of Exeter, England
Rotary Scholarship
Bachelor of Arts, Allegheny College, Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Affiliations
Senior Women’s Corporate Counsel
Honors and Awards
Legal 500 US Elite Ranking (Denver – Corporate and M&A)
Winner – Denver Business Journal Top Women in Energy – 2016
Center for Creative Leadership: “Leadership at the Peak” – 2014
Law Firm Experience
Fortis Law Partners LLC
Corporate Experience
Advanced Emissions Solutions, Inc. (now ARQ, Inc.)
The TriZetto Group (now Cognizant)
First Data Corporation
The Timken Company
Speeches and Publications
Continuing Legal Education Faculty Presenter
Presenter at Fortis Law Partners Lunch & Learn Series
“Cyber Planning – Phishing & Hacking & Data Breach “OH MY!” – 2017
“Operating and Shareholder Agreements – The Nuts & Bolts and How They Hold Things Together” – 2016
Patent Indemnification: Exemplary Clauses and the Realities of Enforcing Them – 2013
Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA – 2013
Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right – Negotiating Contracts Internally and Externally
Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute, Denver, CO
IP Budgeting for Middle Market Companies From “Getting Started” to “Continuous Improvement” – 2012
Anatomy of a Software as a Service Deal – 2011