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Lance Lehnhof

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Buchalter

Utah, USA
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Areas of Practice

  • Corporate Law
  • Fund Formation/Investment Management
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
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Profile

Lance Lehnhof guides founders, owners and executives in mergers, acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and other sophisticated strategic transactions. In addition to being a deal lawyer for more than 20 years, he often serves as outside general counsel for C-suite decision makers. Lance's trusted legal business judgment reflects his busy national, middle-market deal portfolio. His in-depth sell-side experience includes representing many first-time sellers through the complex process.

Clients easily connect with Lance's entrepreneurial mindset, pragmatic advice, and results-oriented approach, which he gained running his own small businesses while in college. When steering clients through transactions, Lance distills the information owners and founders require to make their own best decisions. His counsel reflects a diverse and well-rounded background, which includes serving as general counsel for several companies and as a founder of a boutique corporate firm.

Lance ensures his clients understand every stage of the deal and the risks and opportunities reflected in the deal structure and documents so that they can be tailored to individual clients' goals, needs and concerns.

Clients also rely on his M&A market knowledge, custom counsel and candor. On more than one occasion has Lance talked clients out of deals that were not in their interest.

Lance is deal counsel in mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and other ventures of all sizes. His pragmatic and efficient approach has been effective on deals worth $500mm+ but also those under $1 million, with most in the $30-250mm range. His range of industry experience includes technology, health care, alternative and traditional energy, hospitality, real estate, and manufacturing. As capital markets shift, Lance draws from his experience in investment banking when advising lower middle-market companies on risk and deal concerns.

Among Lance's civic contributions is a multiyear appointment by Utah Governor Gary Herbert to the State Workforce Development Board, where Lance served as a board member. Lance is a graduate of J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and has served as an adjunct faculty member and alumni board member at his alma mater.

Most recently, Lance is recognized by Chambers USA as a leader in the field of Corporate/M&A. He has also been named among Utah's legal elite by Utah Business Magazine.

Bar Admissions

  • Utah
  • New York
  • District of Columbia

Education

  • Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif
  • Brigham Young University, B.A. in International Studies

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate Law
  • Fund Formation/Investment Management
  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Represented an online-to-offline shopping platform client in a $6M Series A financing and $3M secondary transaction lead by a leading West Coast investment firm.
  • Advised FADEL Partners Inc. in their IPO and listing on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
  • Represented IMAGE Studios, an industry-leading franchisor of salon suites, in connection with a strategic investment by MPK Equity Partners.



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