Fredrikson & Byron shareholder Aubrey J. Zuger was elected to serve as President of the State Bar Association of North Dakota. Zuger has been a member of the SBAND Board of Governors since 2011 and previously served as President-Elect and Secretary-Treasurer.
Fredrikson & Byron acted as legal counsel to Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), a global life sciences company providing innovative tools and bioactive reagents for the research and clinical diagnostic communities, in its acquisition of B-MoGen Biotechnologies Inc.
Attorneys Grant D. Fairbairn, Lora Friedemann, Thomas R. Hipkins, Ann M. Ladd, Kurt J. Niederluecke, Charles D. Segelbaum and David C. West were featured in the 2019 edition of the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals.
Fredrikson & Byron attorney Brett F. Roberts has been elected to a three-year term on the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute Board of Governors.
A team from Fredrikson is receiving recognition from The Advocates for Human Rights for its pro bono legal representation of the national Somali 92 Team.
- Fredrikson & Byron was recently recognized by BTI Consulting as a value driver law firm in the BTI Brand Elite 2019 report.
- For the sixth consecutive year, Fredrikson & Byron received national recognition for its status as one of the best U.S. law firms for female attorneys, according to two recently published Law360 surveys.
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Co-Chair Sean P. Kearney was named a 2019 BTI Client Service All-Star.
- Fredrikson & Byron attorneys Bret A. Dublinske and Brant M. Leonard captured victories in two separate cases before the Iowa Supreme Court on May 3, 2019.
Loan T. Huynh receives the 2019 Excellence Award for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion.
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked nine Fredrikson & Byron practice areas and 24 individual attorneys in its 2019 edition.
Attorney Benjamin C. Neitzel has joined Fredrikson & Byron as an associate in the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance Groups.
Fredrikson acted as legal counsel to Virteva, a privately held Minneapolis-based, Gold ServiceNow partner and provider of managed services for digital enterprises, in its acquisition by RLJ Equity Partners, an affiliate of the RLJ Companies, and merger with RLJ portfolio company Crossfuze.
Ryan Murphy and Clint Cutler contributed to the April edition of the Journal of Corporate Renewal, an issue focused on the growing agricultural industry financial crisis.
Fredrikson & Byron received a perfect score of 100 on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.
Fredrikson & Byron continues to solidify its position as the leading law firm in the upper Midwest by opening a new office in Mankato, Minnesota.
Minnesota Lawyer has selected Fredrikson & Byron attorney Alyssa M. Troje as a 2018 Attorney of the Year.
Lousene Hoppe was named a member of the LCLD 2019 class of Fellows and Gauri Samant was named a member of the LCLD 2019 class of Pathfinders program.
Attorney Kenneth S. Levinson has joined Fredrikson & Byron.
Fredrikson & Byron shareholders Lora Friedemann, Cynthia A. Moyer, John C. Pickerill and Ann Dunn Wessberg have been named to the 2019 World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) for Minnesota.
Attorney Beverley L. Adams has joined Fredrikson & Byron’s Employment & Labor, Litigation and Health Care Groups as of counsel.
Attorney Alyssa M. Troje has joined Fredrikson & Byron as a senior associate in the firm’s Real Estate Group.
Four women attorneys join forces to create local chapter of the Women's White Collar Defense Association.
Alethea M. Huyser has joined Fredrikson & Byron.
Fredrikson & Byron has been recognized as a leader in client service, as the firm has been named to the BTI Client Service A-Team 2019.
Fredrikson attorney Mercedes McFarland Jackson has been elected to a three-year term as a member of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
Fredrikson & Byron shareholder Aubrey J. Zuger was named a “40 Under 40” honoree by Prairie Business magazine.
Fredrikson & Byron acted as legal counsel for MTS Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: MTSC) in its recent acquisition of E2M Technologies B.V.
Fredrikson & Byron won the 2018 Minnesota Chapter Transaction of the Year award from the Turnaround Management Association, Minnesota Chapter (TMA).
Fredrikson & Byron has been recognized by the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (LACDL) as a recipient of the 2018 Sam Dalton Capital Defense Advocacy Award for the firm’s pro bono work relating to four death penalty cases in Louisiana. Fredrikson & Byron is the first private law firm to receive this award.
Fredrikson & Byron has been named a Tier 1 Metropolitan “Best Law Firm” in 32 practice areas by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in 2019.
Fredrikson & Byron won two 2018 national awards from the Turnaround Management Association.
Fredrikson has elected six new shareholders: Jeremy P. Duehr, Youn-Jin Kim, Nicholas J. Monson, Andrew J. Neumann, Patrick J. Seul and David G. Waytz.
70 Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were included in The Best Lawyers in America© 2019.
Fredrikson & Byron was named one of the “Best Law Firms for Women” by Working Mother magazine for the eighth consecutive year.
Fredrikson & Byron’s Trusts & Estates Group ranked in Band 1 in Minnesota and North Dakota in the 2018 edition of the Chambers High Net Worth Guide.
Super Lawyers named nine attorneys to the list of 2018 Great Plains Super Lawyers and included seven attorneys on the list of 2018 Great Plains Rising Stars.
Fredrikson attorney Christopher D. Pham was welcomed as a member of the board of trustees of Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Super Lawyers recognized 31 Fredrikson & Byron attorneys as 2018 Minnesota Super Lawyers and 22 attorneys as Minnesota Rising Stars.
Fredrikson attorneys Philip S. Bubb, Bret A. Dublinske, Bridget R. Penick, Emily S. Pontius, Brandon R. Underwood and J. Marc Ward hold various roles within the Iowa State Bar Association.
The Minnesota State Bar Association recognized 59 Fredrikson attorneys as 2017 North Star Lawyers.
Lora Friedemann, Thomas R. Hipkins, Ann M. Ladd, Kurt J. Niederluecke, Charles D. Segelbaum and David C. West were featured in the 2018 edition of the IAM Patent 1000.
Fredrikson was recognized as one of the best U.S. law firms for female attorneys in Law360’s 2018 Ceiling Smashers list.
The Metropolitan Economic Development Association (Meda) has named Fredrikson & Byron the 2017 Corporate Volunteer of the Year.
The First Judicial District awarded its eighth annual Amicus Curiae Award to Fredrikson & Byron.
Brett Roberts has been appointed by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to the Judicial Nominating Commission for District 5C.
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked nine Fredrikson & Byron practice areas and 24 individual attorneys in its 2018 edition.
Fredrikson & Byron was named the 2017 Employer of the Year by International Right of Way Association (IRWA) North Star Chapter 20.
Fredrikson acted as legal counsel to Lee Wallace and Kent Pilakowski in their acquisition of Peace Coffee from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Attorney James L. Baillie has been elected to serve a two-year term as vice president of the American College of Bankruptcy.
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