Brewer Law LLC is a boutique business law firm that provides its clients with “bespoke” legal solutions across a broad spectrum of business, contractual and real estate matters. With a particular emphasis on small and mid - sized businesses, we counsel business owners on the best legal means to achieve growth, protect assets and minimize legal risk.
Our basic mission is to make business and legal services accessible, adaptive and highly responsive. We design unique legal solutions for every client matter and are constantly adapting our practice to changes in the marketplace. In drafting contracts and other agreements, the “form” approach is secondary to the meaning behind the form. Standard terms and conditions are only used with an understanding or their true meaning and adaptation to a particular client need.
Our firm strives to build relationships with clients by understanding individual client needs beyond legal theory. We adapt our practice to best suit our clients; for example, we often make "house calls" at our clients’ places of work instead of having clients come to us. By understanding our clients' environment, meeting their employees and interfacing with their stakeholders, our representation offers a more tailored approach to the practice of law.
Large law firms have an advantage in being able to provide a "full service" practice involving a large number attorneys working across a broad spectrum of legal disciplines. Brewer Law LLC has engineered the same full service approach by developing a close-knit network of lawyers and other business professionals with a proven record of competency and success. This decentralized approach provides our clients with the same full service features of a larger firm at a fraction of the cost.
A native of Maine, Kurt attended Oklahoma State University where he obtained his degree in Political Science and Journalism while also serving as a combat medic in the United States Army Reserves. It was during these years that Kurt served with the 44th Evacuation Hospital in support of the 101st Airborne Division in the Persian Gulf War.
After graduating from OSU, Kurt worked "on the hill" in Washington, D.C. and then for a veterans interest group as part of the Military Coalition. Kurt returned to Oklahoma to attend the University of Oklahoma College of Law, from which he graduated with distinction in 1997. He joined the premier Orlando, Florida law firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A. with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, securitization, structured finance and large commercial real estate transactions. In 2000, Kurt joined the Orlando office of Baker & Hostetler LLP, where he expanded his practice to include business formations, partnership matters and general corporate law. Kurt opened his own firm in 2002.
Kurt has served on the boards for or advised a number of charitable organizations over the years, including the Destiny Foundation of Central Florida, the Central Florida Theatre Alliance, the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Startup Longmont Week and the global relief organizations World Hope and Missionary Ventures International. Kurt was a founding board member of Startup Longmont and is an active member of the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce for which he serves on the Board of Directors and the Public Policy Committee. Kurt also serves on advisory panels for Faith Community Lutheran Church and Front Range Community College.
Kurt is a frequent speaker and panelist at various business events and startup weeks. He has also served as an adjunct professor of business law at Seminole State College.
An avid skier, hiker and competitive distance runner, Kurt moved his family to Longmont, Colorado (Boulder County) in the summer of 2014. Kurt splits his "business time" between Longmont, Colorado and Winter Park, Florida.
In addition to founding two law firms, Kurt is a founding partner in a coffee importing and roasting business with a primary location in Orlando, Florida (Coffee Roasters' Alliance / CRA Wholesale LLC). As an entrepreneur and small business owner, Kurt understands the challenges and legal risks faced by small businesses.
In our humble opinion, Suzanne is a real estate closing genius whose team at Sirote & Permutt PC’s Florida office assists us in closing everything from $14 million office towers to condominium developments, complex commercial properties and more. Suzanne represents clients in negotiating purchase and sale contracts, leases, real estate development, platting, residential and commercial closings as well as preparing restrictive covenants for homeowner associations, condominium owner associations and commercial associations. Additionally, Suzanne reviews and coordinates the Real Estate Owned (REO) closings for Florida. Suzanne also is a member of Sirote’s Mortgage Banking practice group where she resolves title issues for foreclosure cases.
Dinah Philips has worked as a highly-skilled commercial real estate paralegal for more than a decade. Dinah's expertise includes commercial lending transactions, complex title issues and real estate closing management. In addition to assisting Brewer Law LLC with private lending and real estate closing support, Dinah also manages the commercial title insurance group for Trust Title Group LLC, the preferred title company for Brewer Law LLC. When she isn't overseeing millions of dollars in commercial property closings, Dinah is often training for her next triathlon.
Brewer Law LLC focuses mostly on the "transactional" or "deal" side of real estate and business transactions. This representation typically involves contracts, deal strategy, commercial negotiations and real estate and business closing services. As noted on the “Home Page” for this website, we also assist a great number of our clients with numerous litigation matters.
The following is a brief list of transactions for which we have served as lead or primary legal counsel over the past year:
A “general counsel” is a company’s most important strategic asset and the primary source of all initial legal inquiries and oversight. Many businesses cannot justify employing a full-time general counsel and a corresponding legal department. Likewise, extensive and ongoing business counsel provided by a traditional law firm can be prohibitively expensive. Brewer Law LLC offers an alternative to these models by providing general counsel-level services tailored to fit the varied legal needs of each business client. We work with our clients to structure long and short-term representation that encompasses all of the advantages of employing an in-house general counsel.
As outside general counsel, we work with our clients to analyze risk, assist with deal strategy, provide comprehensive business counsel and manage the cost and scope of litigation. Our extensive partnerships with other law firms and specialized counsel (i.e. tax, securities, litigation) allow us to provide the representative services of a large law firm at a reduced cost.
Brewer Law LLC currently serves as outside general counsel to a wide variety of businesses. These include insurance service companies, real estate holding companies, software service providers, real estate brokers, lenders, consulting groups and even a large, US-based fuel additive company. We also act as “family office” general counsel for individuals and families with extensive real estate and business portfolios.
Competent dispute management is essential to resolving conflicts and avoiding costly litigation. We represent clients by providing them with a true advocate for legal disputes and contentious negotiations. When amicable resolutions are not possible, we work with our highly competent litigation partners to aggressively enforce our clients' rights. Aggressive, however, does not necessarily mean expensive — one of our most important roles in the litigation process is to work closely with our trial colleagues to contain litigation costs without impairing case strategy.
Brewer Law LLC clients can find us at two locations: Longmont, CO (Boulder County) and Winter Park (Orlando), FL. For more information, you are welcome to call, email or stop by one of our offices.