Rick has practiced law for over 40 years. Beginning as a natural resources/oil and gas lawyer, he later developed a comprehensive transactional practice encompassing all major areas of corporate, business, and commercial law including business planning and startup, entity formation, corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, contracts, product distribution, private securities transactions, venture capital, private equity, transportation and logistics, real property, and energy. Rick is General Counsel for Cowboy Clean Fuels, LLC. After working with the co-founders of Cowboy for more than a decade in various other roles, Rick began working with them in 2013 to secure the first technology license from the University of Wyoming to begin what evolved into Cowboy Clean Fuels, LLC. Rick joined the company formally in 2022 to support the company’s legal and governance functions.
He has been a partner in four law firms, heading practice groups in Emerging Technologies and Capital Formation and Energy and Sustainability. For almost a decade he served as Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of what became the seventh largest environmental services company in the U.S. during his tenure. He has conducted or overseen hundreds of mergers and acquisitions and complex corporate transactions. He has actively represented the biomass-to-energy business sector for over 25 years.
Rick holds a BA in Social Science from Michigan State University, an MBA in Finance from Michigan State University (Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honorary), and a JD from the University of Denver College of Law (Order of St. Ives National Legal Honorary). He is licensed to practice in Colorado and Michigan.
