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Andy Daly advises employers, including employee-owned companies, on legal issues connected with employee benefits. He focuses in particular on matters involving employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), including: Handling ESOP transactions. Assisting with plan design. Evaluating feasibility issues...

Kayla Kienzle represents employers in employment litigation, including cases related to claims of discrimination, retaliation, breach of contract and breach of non-competition/non-solicitation agreements. She also has experience with class and collective actions and mass arbitration involving...

Mai Tong Yang is a member of the Transactional Department in the firm's Minneapolis office. She maintains a general corporate practice and assists with a variety of deals. Her skill set includes: reviewing contracts; drafting a wide array of forms, agreements and bylaws; and handling filings for...

Kermit Nash counsels domestic and international clients on legal issues connected with their business operations, governance, strategy and investments. Privately held domestic and international corporations rely on Kermit to advise them on transactions ranging from mergers and acquisitions and sales...

Jenni Oprosko assists companies with contractual matters, particularly those involving intellectual property and technology. Her experience includes reviewing and drafting intellectual property licensing agreements, master services agreements, nondisclosure agreements, and software-as-a-service...

David Sartorio focuses his practice on corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, control and non-control investments, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. David has experience advising companies ranging from private start-up and growth companies to large public companies...

Katherine "Katie" Barrett Wiik is a litigator with two decades of experience handling federal and state appellate matters and litigation disputes. Katie has served as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and secured favorable outcomes for clients before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits, the...

Doug Anderson is a member of the Litigation Department in the firm's Minneapolis office. He maintains a general litigation practice and handles a variety of matters involving complex commercial disputes. Before joining the firm, Doug was a law clerk for Justice Brent R. Appel in the Iowa Supreme...

Erin Westbrook assists clients in the food, beverage, agribusiness and cannabis industries with matters involving their intellectual property and business disputes. Her experience includes counseling and litigation involving trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets and contracts, and she...

Courtland Merrill represents businesses across the country in intellectual property disputes, including enforcement of patents and IP rights in trials and appeals. His patent litigation experience includes handling claims of willful patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, an area of...

Steve Kerbaugh represents companies in employment and commercial litigation, and advises them on employment matters affecting their daily operations. Clients who look to him for advice range from closely held companies to multi-national, publicly traded corporations across the country and in an...

Al Coleman is an award-winning corporate partner who is sought after for his work handling major transactions, including for high-profile clients. Kevin Warren, former chief operating officer for the Minnesota Vikings and current commissioner of the Big 10 Conference, says "Al has always provided...

Nancy Burke handles emerging, cutting-edge environmental issues for clients, using her experience to help them tackle these new challenges. She knows how to navigate the quagmire of environmental and safety regulations for client development projects, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate...

Max Bremer advises entrepreneurs and established companies on key transactions throughout the business life cycle, from formations and financings to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Max works with clients in a variety of industries, including health care IT, medical devices, data analytics...

Doug Ramler's focus is on helping entrepreneurs, managers and boards build their companies. He advises high-growth start-up and emerging companies on business formation, technology commercialization, finance, governance, contracts and strategic matters. With 30 years of experience, Doug is able to...

Robert Christoffel is a tax attorney who advises clients on U.S. domestic and cross-border transactional as well as international tax matters. Public and private companies and private equity funds look to him to structure and negotiate taxable and tax-free corporate mergers and acquisitions (share...

Julia Taylor advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance, and general corporate and commercial matters. Public and private companies, both international and based in the United States, rely on Julia to assist them from pre-deal structuring and planning and due...

Daniel Kopp, Ph.D., advises companies and universities on how to protect the intellectual property behind their commercially and scientifically meaningful inventions. In his work as a patent attorney, Daniel brings an informed perspective as an MIT-trained biochemist and 20 years of legal work in...

Thomas Cryan advises Fortune 100 clients and other large employers on legal issues connected with executive compensation, fringe benefits, employment tax and related government reporting. Drawing on more than 25 years of practice, Tom works closely with the legal, tax and benefits departments for...

Peter Brunovskis brings more than 20 years of experience to his role as a patent agent assisting clients with U.S. and overseas patent applications. He is a former biotech patent examiner for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office with a Ph.D. in microbiology and 15 years of research experience in...