Ted White

Ted White
Co-Chair, Advanced Energy Group, Fennemore

Edward D. “Ted” White is Co-Chair of the firm’s Advanced Energy Group.

Ted’s practice focuses on corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, and financings. As a strategic partner, Ted helps clients discern opportunities and make strategic connections that add business value. He has specific experience with private capital funds and takes a leadership role in fund formation and handling portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.

Ted currently serves as Senior Counselor for a prominent investor and philanthropist’s extensive business, policy, political and philanthropic efforts. Ted is also the founder and advisory board chair for Estabrook Funds, a fund of global, multi-strategy absolute return hedge funds, one of the first of its kind in the United States. He is on the Limited Partner Advisory Committee of multiple investment funds and serves on the board of directors or advisory boards of several investment funds and companies.

Ted is an arbitrator for complex commercial disputes through the American Arbitration Association. He has resolved dozens of commercial claims relative to matters such as loans, securities fraud, mergers and acquisitions, professional sports contracts, and other complex business issues.

He is the author of Business Contracts (Bradford Publishing Co. 2010); Business Contracts: A Guide (Bradford Publishing Co. 2013); and Business Contracts: A Guide for Lawyers and Business Owners, 2016 Edition (CBA-CLE).

Ted has a strong record of civic leadership. He is a former Chair of the Boettcher Foundation, one of the largest privately endowed grant-making organizations in Colorado, and a former Director of Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation (SASB). He serves as an officer and trustee of many community organizations, including RMI and Advanced Energy Institute (AEI).

Ted is a former adjunct professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law where he designed and taught the popular Business Transactions course. His other teaching efforts include numerous CLE courses.

Before joining Fennemore, Ted was the name partner at the law firm Moye White LLP. Prior to that, he was the President and Managing Director of the law firm Dufford & Brown, P.C.