Jennifer Rosenthal

Boulder Valley 40 Under Forty

Jennifer Rosenthal dons biking shoes to pedal in the outdoors, but climbing shoes might be more appropriate for her work life because she has just ascended to a partnership in the law firm of Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner PC.

Rosenthal mentors junior attorneys at KKO, emphasizes work with startups, and started a law-clerk program in which her firm employs people fresh from law-school graduation and trains them for a couple of years to help them get jobs.

She came to KKO in 2012 after two years at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, where she represented public and private companies in corporate-finance transactions, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions.

At the University of Colorado Law School, where she received her juris doctorate in 2009, Rosenthal now is an adjunct professor who teaches students how to draft venture-capital documents. She is a supervising attorney for the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, which provides free legal services to startup companies, and is a member of the dean’s advisory council.

Her power of persuasion, honed while earning her bachelor’s degree in media studies at CU, helped her draft investment recommendations for the Foundry Group in 2009 and teach the speech and debate teams at Monarch High School in the 2005-06 school year.

Rosenthal is a board member for the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, which acts as the hub for the startup community along the Front Range and runs a number of educational and practical courses for those who want to get involved in Boulder’s startup scene.

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