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Kurt Ruttum

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Overview

Kurt Ruttum is Managing Partner at Tonkon Torp, with a practice emphasizing mergers and acquisitions, finance, strategic analysis, and general corporate counsel matters.

Kurt has extensive experience representing companies, underwriters, borrowers, lenders, investors, private investment firms, private equity firms, and venture capitalists in public offerings, commercial loans, and private placements of debt and equity securities. He also represents buyers and sellers of public and private companies, their divisions, and their strategic assets. Kurt represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, software development (including SaaS), private equity, venture capital, and forest products.

Kurt began his law career with the firm in 1986 and was a partner in 1996 when he left to join a publicly held manufacturing client as Vice President and General Counsel. Subsequently he served as Chief Financial Officer of a client that was a publicly held software company. Kurt rejoined Tonkon Torp in 2000.

Kurt is admitted to practice law in Oregon and Washington.

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Featured Representative Matters

International Sale of Interest in Dental Equipment Company

Represented dental parts and equipment company in the sale of one-third of its interest to a public company in Japan. In a truly global transaction, the Tokyo, Japan-based investor had legal counsel in New York, with their principal attorney working out of Hawaii. An insurer in London underwrote the representations and warranties insurance. Tonkon Torp's M&A group assembled a team of Tonkon Torp attorneys to assist in additional intellectual property, tax, and labor and employment issues important to the success of the transaction.
 
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Featured Work

Guiding a Software Company Through a Successful Equity Sale

Tonkon Torp’s mergers and acquisitions team facilitated the successful equity sale of ShiftWise, a Portland software company that provides web-based healthcare workforce solutions, to AMN Healthcare Services, Inc., a publicly traded strategic buyer. Find details and more featured cases here.

Tonkon Torp Leads Oregon Grocery Chain Out of Bankruptcy

In one of the quickest and most successful conclusions of a grocery chain bankruptcy proceeding, Tonkon Torp secured court approval of a reorganization plan for C&K Market, Inc., to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy just seven months after filing. Find details and more featured cases here.

Tonkon Torp Represents Avid Health in Sale to Church & Dwight

Tonkon Torp was counsel to privately held Avid Health, Inc. in its cash sale to Church & Dwight Co Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey based, publicly traded consumer products company with a portfolio of personal care and household product brands.

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Community Involvement & Activities

Parrott Creek Child and Family Services, Inc.
Board of Directors
 
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Professional Memberships

Multnomah Bar Association
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Awards & Recognition

The Best Lawyers in America

The Best Lawyers in America

2008-2021, Corporate Law
2008-2021, Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers

2010-2020, Corporate/M&A
Super Lawyers

Super Lawyers

2006-2007, 2009-2020, Oregon Super Lawyer – Mergers & Acquisitions
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Recent News

8.20.2020

Best Lawyers in America® Includes 49 Tonkon Torp Attorneys on 2021 List

Forty-nine Tonkon Torp lawyers representing 36 practice areas have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2021. A majority of attorneys have been named to the peer-review list in past years, and most have been recognized for more…
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8.20.2020

Kurt Ruttum Interviewed by Business Journal on Tonkon Torp in the Pandemic and Beyond

Tonkon Torp Managing Partner Kurt Ruttum was interviewed by the Portland Business Journal in a wide-ranging conversation that touched on his path to firm management, and Tonkon Torp’s role in Portland’s legal and business community.
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7.7.2020

26 Tonkon Torp Attorneys Honored on 2020 Super Lawyers Lists

Twenty-six Tonkon Torp attorneys in nine practice areas have been included in the 2020 Oregon Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists. Tonkon Torp partner and bankruptcy authority Albert N. Kennedy has been once again recognized on the Top 50 list of…
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7.7.2020

Kurt Ruttum Elected Managing Partner of Tonkon Torp

Tonkon Torp partner Kurt Ruttum has been elected Managing Partner of the firm effective July 1, 2020. Ruttum succeeds Darcy Norville, who held the role since 2015.
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4.27.2020

Chambers USA Names 20 Tonkon Torp Attorneys in 2020 Ranking

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized 20 Tonkon Torp attorneys in seven practice areas in its 2020 USA Guide. Eighteen of the Tonkon Torp attorneys named have been previously ranked by Chambers.
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8.15.2019

2020 List for Best Lawyers in America® Includes 48 Tonkon Torp Attorneys

Forty-eight Tonkon Torp lawyers representing 39 practice areas have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020. A majority of attorneys have been named to the list in past years, and most have been recognized for more than five…
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7.16.2019

31 Tonkon Torp Attorneys Honored on 2019 Super Lawyers Lists

Thirty-one Tonkon Torp attorneys in nine practice areas have been included in the 2019 Oregon Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists.
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4.29.2019

Chambers USA Names 23 Tonkon Torp Attorneys in 2019 Ranking

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized 23 Tonkon Torp attorneys in seven practice areas in its 2019 USA Guide.
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9.10.2018

Tonkon Torp Donates to Forte for Children Charity Gala

Tonkon Torp made a donation in support of the 9th Annual Dei's Forte for Children Charity Gala, held September 8 in San Diego, California. Kurt Ruttum led Tonkon's involvement with the event. Over the years, funds raised by Dei's Forte have rescued…
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8.17.2018

Best Lawyers in America® Names 51 Tonkon Torp Attorneys to 2019 List

Fifty-one Tonkon Torp lawyers representing 41 practice areas have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2019. Nearly all attorneys have been named to the list in past years, and have been recognized for more than five years
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Recent Alerts

5.5.2020

Earn-OUCH: Post-M&A Transaction Earn-Outs in Light of COVID-19

Often, the parties in a business sale will designate a portion of the purchase price to be paid out over time or otherwise made contingent on the performance of the business after the transaction is complete. An earn-out can be one of the most…
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6.20.2012

JOBS Act Directs SEC to Lift Ban on General Solicitation and General Advertising in Rule 506 Offerings

The recently enacted Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) directs the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to adopt rules that remove the existing prohibition against general advertising and general solicitation in private…
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4.23.2012

SEC Adopts Final Rules on Performance-Based Fees

As discussed in a previous Tonkon Tip, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order raising the financial thresholds of Rule 205-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which provides that only "qualified clients" may be charged a…
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2.6.2012

Final ERISA Service Provider Fee Disclosure Rules Go Into Effect July 1, 2012

On February 2, 2012, the Department of Labor ("DOL") issued final regulations requiring service providers to ERISA retirement plans to disclose information about the service providers' compensation and potential conflicts of interest. The final rules…
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1.25.2012

SEC Overhauls Form ADV Part 1A to Conform to New Dodd-Frank Requirements

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 has significantly changed how investment advisers are regulated. Among other things, the Act (a) increased the amount of assets under management required for SEC registration and…
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7.15.2011

SEC Extends Deadlines for Compliance with New Investment Adviser Registration Regime under Dodd-Frank

As we detailed in a previous Tonkon Tip, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 ("Dodd-Frank") makes significant changes to the current investment adviser regulatory regime.
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6.28.2011

New ERISA Participant-Directed Plan Disclosure Rules

A discussion of the new Department of Labor rules, enumerating the plan and investment-related information that employers must furnish to participants.
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2.15.2011

Get Ready Now to Comply with ERISA Service Provider Fee Disclosure Rules

On January 1, 2012, new rules go into effect that will require investment advisers, brokers and others who provide services to ERISA plans to disclose to plan fiduciaries information relating to the service provider's compensation. This disclosure is…
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1.12.2011

SEC Extends Deadline for Brochure Supplements for Certain RIAs

As discussed in a previous Tonkon Tip, the SEC recently amended the requirements of Form ADV Part 2 to require registered investment advisers to provide clients with a "brochure" under Part 2A of Form ADV and "brochure supplements" under Part 2B of…
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12.7.2010

DOL Proposes Broader Definition of ERISA "Fiduciary" Applicable to Investment Advisers

On October 22, 2010, the Department of Labor ("DOL") published proposed regulations that would broaden the definition of when a person is an ERISA "fiduciary" by reason of giving investment advice to an employee benefit plan or a plan's participants…
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Publications & Presentations


"Earn-OUCH: Post-M&A Transaction Earn-Outs in Light of COVID-19," Tonkon Torp Legal Alert, May 2020
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Services

Mergers & Acquisitions Financial Services & Investment Management Law Corporate Finance & Transactions Business Law
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Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1986

B.A., Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1981
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Oregon State Bar
Washington State Bar Association
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