Senior Counsel

Amber M. Naiman

Innovative corporate transactional attorney helping businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and operators navigate complex transactions, regulatory environments, and strategic growth opportunities.

Amber M. Naiman

Biography

Turning complexity into opportunity.

Amber M. Naiman advises established, emerging, and startup companies throughout every stage of the business life cycle. Her practice focuses on a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions, helping clients build, grow, restructure, acquire, and position businesses for long-term success.

Her clients operate across diverse industries including Food & Beverage, Retail & Hospitality, Agriculture, E-Commerce, Regulated Industries, and Emerging Growth Markets.

Amber is widely recognized for her practical, comprehensive, and business-first approach. She works closely with clients to transform complex legal and operational challenges into clear, actionable business solutions.

Throughout much of her legal career, Amber has been deeply involved in highly regulated and emerging industries, providing strategic counsel to operators, retailers, manufacturers, investors, landlords, startups, multi-state businesses, and ancillary service providers.

Corporate Transactions Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity & Venture Capital Regulatory Compliance

Practice Focus

Strategic counsel across transactions, governance, and growth.

Amber advises businesses on sophisticated corporate, transactional, operational, and regulatory matters, helping organizations navigate changing markets with confidence.

Corporate Transactions

Represents businesses and individuals in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, strategic partnerships, private equity financing, venture capital transactions, and business expansions.

Governance & Operations

Drafts and negotiates governing documents for LLCs, corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, shareholder groups, and other complex business structures.

Commercial Agreements

Handles intellectual property agreements, licensing arrangements, manufacturing contracts, distribution agreements, compensation structures, and strategic commercial relationships.

Regulated Industries

Experienced guidance in evolving legal environments.

Amber has extensive experience advising clients operating within highly regulated and emerging industries, helping organizations understand regulatory obligations, manage risk, and capitalize on new opportunities.

Her work includes industry-specific compliance analysis, multi-state regulatory strategy, jurisdictional surveys, legislative monitoring, and practical implementation planning.

Amber routinely assists clients in addressing novel legal issues, evaluating risk, answering complex regulatory questions, and developing creative solutions tailored to unique business circumstances.

By combining industry knowledge with business acumen, she helps clients successfully navigate fast-paced, demanding, and constantly evolving legal landscapes.

Industries & Services

Supporting businesses across sectors.

Industries

Retail & Hospitality
Food & Beverage
Agriculture
Emerging Growth Industries
Regulated Industries

Core Services

General Counsel Services
Corporate Governance
Corporate Restructuring
Commercial Transactions
Regulatory Advice & Counsel

Advanced Transactions

Private Equity
Mergers & Acquisitions
Venture Capital
Strategic Partnerships
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Speaking Engagements

Speaking Engagements & Industry Leadership

Featured Presentations

“Law and Policy: The Legal Landscape of Psychedelics” — Psycon Denver (Apr. 2026)
“Lawyers, Guns and Money: Second Amendment Rights and Cannabis” — 10th Annual Cannabis Symposium (Feb. 2026)
“High Caliber Rights: Cannabis and the Second Amendment” — Cannabis Law Institute (Jun. 2025)

Additional Presentations

“The Rise of Cannabis in the Hospitality Industry” (Mar. 2023)
“The Impacts of COVID-19 on Colorado's Regulated Marijuana Industry” — CBA-CLE (Jul. 2020)
“Venture Capital – Marijuana Business Ventures” — Venture Law Summit (Mar. 2019)

Community Leadership & Service

Attorney Volunteer, Colorado OEDIT Social Equity Pro-Bono Clinic (Dec. 2023)
Denver Social Equity Resource Fair (Oct. 2021)

Frequent speaker on cannabis regulation, psychedelic policy, venture capital, hospitality integration, social equity initiatives, compliance strategy, and emerging regulatory frameworks.

Education & Credentials

Built on legal and business foundations.

Amber earned dual degrees—a Juris Doctor and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business Transactions—from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

She also earned a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.) from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, providing a strong business foundation that continues to inform her legal practice today.

Amber has been licensed to practice law in Colorado since 2016 and earned Mediation Training and Mentoring Certification in 2018.

Outside the Office

Adventure, community, and hockey.

Outside of her legal practice, Amber enjoys skiing, traveling, attending live music events, and spending time with her husky mix, Jimmy (formally James).

As any proud Canadian might admit, she is also an avid hockey fan and enjoys following the sport whenever possible.

Sophisticated transactions deserve practical counsel.

Whether you are raising capital, restructuring operations, expanding into new markets, navigating regulation, or preparing for acquisition, Amber provides strategic legal guidance designed to support growth.

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