Nicole Ament

About Nicole Ament

I consider myself my clients’ business partner first, and their real estate attorney second. Real estate and land use attorney with experience in all aspects of real estate development, acquistion and dispostion. Direct experience with multi-state portfolio transactions, public-private partnerships, and resort development. Specialties: Golf course acquistion and dispostion, public-private partnerships structure and negotiations, resort development, land use entitlements

Experience

1. Shareholder

   Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

   Sep 1999 — Present

   As the firm’s Hospitality, Resort and Recreation Group chair, I have more than 17 years of national experience working with complex real estate portfolios and large single assets, specializing in land use, development, financing and disposition unique to real estate portfolios with emphasis on resort and recreation work.I have managed portfolio transactions with as many as 276 properties in a single portfolio and in excess of $1.5 billion in assets in diverse industries including hotels, golf courses, ski areas, health care facilities, manufactured housing communities and athletic clubs. My client base spans from high end ski resorts, including combined financing work for Squaw Mountain and Alpine Meadows, to fitness facilities. Drawing on my national experience, I am familiar with the unique real estate aspects of different markets and am able to recognize opportunities to make transactions run more efficiently. I leverage my complex portfolio experience to assist regional and local clients with both large-scale single assets and complex development issues. I handle both business and legal aspects of the transaction to help clients get the deal done and find positive ways to impact their bottom line.I work effectively with both sides in a transaction to find solutions that work for all parties, identifying issues and needs to assemble and manage resources from both inside and outside the firm. As a trusted advisor, I have long-standing relationships with clients and remains heavily involved during the life of the client’s portfolio, allowing me to negotiate each deal as if it were my own. I proactively work to identify property and operational challenges in order to develop smooth exit strategies for my clients.

Education

• University of Denver - Sturm College of Law

  JD

  1995 — 1998