CURTIS VERNON belongs to the Commercial Group. He practices in the areas of public finance, business formation and transactions, and estate planning. In his public finance practice, Curtis assists private and government clients with taxable and tax-exempt financings of public projects. Curtis’ business practice focuses on entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and contract preparation and negotiation, and includes services to nonprofit and religious organizations. 

Curtis earned his J.D. in 2015 from University of New Mexico School of Law, where he was recognized for providing exceptional service to the clinical law program. Prior to law school, Curtis earned a master’s degree in finance from the Anderson School of Management, where he helped manage an all-equity investment portfolio created by the Regents’ Endowment Fund. Prior to working at Sutin, Thayer and Browne, Curtis worked at Sandia National Laboratories, providing accounting support to a nuclear nonproliferation organization and later working in information systems and databases.