Wayne Wiemerslage  4481 W 123RD PL Broomfield, CO 80020-5633 Phone: 970-232-3334 Fax: 303-284-7882 E-mail: WWiemerslage@burkreedy.com

Background: Mr. Wiemerslage has practiced law more than 30 years as a member of government, in-house corporate counsel for public companies and private law firms. Mr. Wiemerslage graduated from the University of Illinois law school in 1974. He served as an Illinois Assistant Attorney General, then attorney for Illinois Environmental Protection for 11 years. He joined Marathon Oil Company in 1990, leaving in 2003 and opened his own law firm in Fort Collins. Mr. Wiemerslage is a member of the Business Law Section and a member and elected Council Member at Large to the Technology Law & Policy Section of the Colorado Bar Association for the last several years. Mr. Wiemerslage was appointed to the City of Fort Collins Telecommunications Board and was appointed by the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce to its Environmental Committee. He was elected chair of the Environmental Law Subcommittee of the then Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association while he was working in Texas. He is currently a member of the Colorado BarAssociation's Environmental Law Section and has made numerous presentations on Information Technology and environmental law to bar association groups and the public.

Information Technology: For software developers or businesses planning to develop, license, sell or purchase software, hire or be a consultant, or buy, sell or lease computer hardware, Mr. Wiemerslage's substantial experience in these areas will help companies succeed in their goals of creating contracts to protect their interests, while finding the reasonable compromises that should get the deal closed in a timely fashion. He is very proficient with the Information Technology purchasing and licensing process, from drafting requests for information and proposals ("RFI” and “RFP") to complex custom contracts, master consulting and service agreements with job orders, software development and licensing contracts, technology transfers, hardware purchases and leasing, website agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and so forth. Inventors with a patent will want to license or sell their rights to their invention to make money; software developers may need to license their work; and corporations need to negotiate when purchasing software and other licenses. Mr. Wiemerslage can provide great assistance in all these areas in drafting and negotiating licenses or sales agreements to create multiple streams of income for developers and licensors. His contracts include the purchase of 12,000 PCs through web-based reverse auction with subsequent negotiations, greater than $50 million mainframe and distributed server outsourcing contract, and $1/2 billion SAP license and implementation project. He has drafted contracts for transactions and projects in China and South America.

Environmental Law: For companies with environmental concerns, such as obtaining permits, responding to spills and government notices, working on site assessments, conducting All Appropriate Inquiries in the purchase of real estate, conducting remediation, etc., Mr. Wiemerslage's 19 years of extensive environmental experience in these areas can prove invaluable. Mr. Wiemerslage has experience in air pollution control, water and NPDES permitting, RCRA, spill response and remediation, and dealing with state and federal environmental agencies. He served 11 years as an attorney for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. While at Illinois EPA, he was directly involved with variance petitions and recommendations, water permit appeals, water enforcement investigations and litigation, Pollution Control Board public hearings, pretreatment ordinance reviews, regulatory promulgations and hearings. He testified before an Illinois House of Representatives committee regarding radium 226 and 228 in drinking water and the enforcement proceedings involving drinking water. Mr. Wiemerslage then served eight years as an environmental attorney for a Fortune 100 international integrated oil company. His responsibilities included land and water issues under federal laws, such as RCRA and the Clean Water Act as well as applicable state laws. His work included investigations and reporting of releases of petroleum products at production sites, pipelines and gasoline stations, as well as response to and remediation of those releases. He oversaw the drafting of remediation reports and plans, and negotiated administrative orders and settlements with U.S. EPA and state agencies. He prepared filings for state reimbursement for remediation expenses incurred for leaking underground storage tanks.

Other Areas: Mr. Wiemerslage also has experience in business formation, business transactions and estate planning. This allows Mr. Wiemerslage to advise on the client’s needs from startup through operation to exit plan and next generation as part of an overall plan for the client. He can advise on startup issues, such as choice of entity and which state is best for formation based on attracting investors, etc., and drafting the operating documents to address various control, asset protection and tax issues. For example, the founders want to maintain control but also be attractive to investors.