Elected Member

Robert R. Keatinge

Denver, CO
Holland & Hart LLP
Education
U/Colorado, B.A.
University of Denver College of Law, LLM

Robert Keatinge is Of Counsel to the Denver law firm of Holland & Hart LLP.  He practices in the areas of business organizations, taxation, and professional responsibility.  Mr. Keatinge has represented a wide variety of business organizations and their owners from small start-up companies to publicly traded corporations.  He has a BA (1970) and Masters Certificate in Applied Shakespeare (2017) from the University of Colorado and a JD (1974)  and LLM (Taxation) (1980) from the University of Denver He has written and spoken nationally in the areas of business law, taxation, and professional responsibility.  He is the co-author of Keatinge and Conaway on Choice of Business Entity (revised annually, most recently, 2020) and Ribstein and Keatinge on Limited Liability Companies Second Edition (revised biennially, most recently December, 2020) (both Thomson/West) as well as author of law review and other articles on business, tax, and professional responsibility.  He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Suffolk University School of Law  and Professor of Law  LLM. in US Law for International Business Lawyers at  the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest, Hungary and the Center for International Legal Studies Salzburg, Austria, 2008 (teaching U.S. Business Organizations) and an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law and the University of Miami School of Law.  He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel; a member of the American Law Institute; and is listed in the current Best Lawyers in America in three specialties (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law and Tax Law) and has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Denver Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year; and listed in Who’s Who in America and other publications.  He is chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Committee on Professional Responsibility and a member of the ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.  He is former Chair of the Colorado Bar Association Business Law and Taxation Sections.  He was a member of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee to Comment on the Revised Uniform Partnership Act.  He is former chair of the Committees on Taxation and on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities (formerly the Committee on Partnerships and Unincorporated Business Organizations) of the ABA Business Law Section and of the Joint Editorial Board for the ABA/BNA Lawyer’s Manual on Professional Conduct and a former Member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates.  He is a graduate of the University of Colorado and the University of Denver College of Law (JD, LLM (Taxation)).  He sits on the Boards of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts and Stories on Stage.

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Areas of Expertise
Tax Law
Corporate Law (Commercial Law)
Professional Responsibility (Ethics)