About David Waller
Founder & Owner of Legal Aspirin
Legal Aspirin started as an outlet to fulfill my professional goal of understanding and serving my clients’ wants and needs. Before founding Legal Aspirin, Dave worked as a transactional lawyer for one of the country’s largest law firms for 15 years. He witnessed firsthand how clients benefited from innovative solutions; however, creativity is a rather foreign concept in current legal practice and solutions.
Dave uses a flexible billable hour approach which enables him to get to know his clients, implement creative solutions that directly address their needs and desires, and achieve better results more efficiently.
Dave grew up in a middle-class St. Louis, Missouri, suburb and attended college on a full scholarship. While in college, he was his fraternity’s two-time president and the inter-fraternity counsel’s chairman. As a junior, he met the woman who would become his wife and they now have two boys. Dave graduated with a history major and a minor in psychology, so his immediate career options were limited to law school. He was lucky enough to get another scholarship and worked as a lobbyist for the state’s largest Catholic hospital system and as the assistant to the CEO of a community hospital. After graduating from law school, Dave was hired by an AmLaw 100 law firm, working first in Houston and then transferring to the Denver office. He stayed with that firm, working his way up to becoming a partner, before leaving to start his own law firm.
Broad Transactional Experience
- A series of acquisitions that ultimately created the nation’s second largest onshore oil/gas drilling company.
- The purchase of a premier downtown Denver building site and development of a newly-constructed high rise that serves as the international headquarters of a leading dialysis company.
- A complicated public tender offer/back-end merger that secured lucrative benefits for both the company’s founders and their employees.
- The negotiated workouts of large financing.
- The negotiation of joint ventures involving the commercial development of various technologies.
- Several private placement offerings that provided funding for the development of products and services.
- The acquisition and disposition of pipelines and related transportation facilities.
- The acquisition and sale of mineral rights and royalty interests.
- The coordination of legal work necessary to support the distribution network of a large healthcare supplier.
- The licensing of well-known brands for extension into new product niches.
- Serving as temporary general counsel of life sciences companies acquired by a client.