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Fennemore LLPProfile date: 2025-10-26 Fennemore LLP
Fennemore LLP is a full-service Am Law 200 business law firm with a long history rooted in the American West. Founded in 1885, the firm has grown significantly through strategic mergers and expansion, now operating a network of offices across states like Arizona, California, Colorado, and Nevada. Fennemore positions itself as an entrepreneurial and innovative firm dedicated to helping businesses and their owners navigate complex legal landscapes, manage risk, and achieve growth.
The firm's core business is providing comprehensive legal counsel to a diverse range of clients, from emerging technology startups and entrepreneurs to established, large-scale corporations. Its services span virtually every area of importance to modern business, covering both transactional matters and complex litigation.
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Core Legal Services
Fennemore's services can be broadly categorized into two main pillars: Business & Finance (Transactional) and Litigation.
## Business & Finance Services
This practice area encompasses all aspects of corporate and commercial law, guiding clients through the entire business life cycle.
Corporate and Business Law: Fennemore acts as outside general counsel for many businesses. This includes:
- Entity Formation: Advising on the optimal business structure (e.g., C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, partnership) and managing all aspects of formation and governance.
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A): Representing both purchasers and sellers in complex transactions, including asset purchases, stock acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and leveraged buyouts.
- Commercial Finance: Structuring, negotiating, and documenting a wide array of financing transactions, such as asset-based lending, project financing, and loan restructures.
- Private Equity & Securities: Advising clients on private capital and fundraising, including private placements of debt and equity, venture capital financings, and compliance with federal and state securities laws.
Real Estate: The firm maintains one of the largest real estate practices in the western U.S. Its services cover:
- Acquisitions and Dispositions: Handling the purchase and sale of commercial, industrial, and residential properties.
- Development and Land Use: Guiding developers through all project phases, from due diligence and acquisition to navigating zoning, permitting, and entitlement processes.
- Leasing: Representing both landlords and tenants in negotiating complex commercial and industrial lease agreements.
- Real Estate Finance: Structuring and documenting loans for real estate acquisition and development.
Intellectual Property (IP): The firm helps clients protect and monetize their intangible assets.
- IP Protection: Handling trademark and copyright registration, patent applications, and trade secret protection strategies.
- IP Transactions: Drafting and negotiating licensing agreements, technology transfer agreements, and joint development agreements.
- Privacy & Data Security: Advising clients on compliance with data privacy laws (like CCPA/CPRA) and developing data security policies and incident response plans.
Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation: Fennemore's private client group serves high-net-worth individuals, families, and business owners.
- Estate Planning: Drafting sophisticated wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), and other wealth transfer vehicles.
- Business Succession Planning: Creating and implementing strategies for the orderly transfer of family-owned businesses to the next generation or to third parties, including buy-sell agreements.
- Trust Administration & Probate: Guiding fiduciaries (trustees, executors) through the process of administering estates and trusts.
## Litigation and Dispute Resolution Services
Fennemore's litigation department represents clients in high-stakes disputes across federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Business and Commercial Litigation: This is a cornerstone of the firm's litigation practice, covering a wide range of disputes:
- Breach of Contract: Prosecuting and defending claims related to all forms of commercial agreements.
- Business Torts: Handling cases involving fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, and interference with business relationships.
- Securities Litigation: Defending corporations, directors, and officers in shareholder disputes and derivative actions.
Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law: With its deep roots in the West, Fennemore has a highly specialized practice in this area.
- Water Law: Representing clients in matters of water rights, adjudications, and disputes, a critical issue in the region.
- Mining Law & Public Lands: Advising mining companies on all facets of operation, including claim locations, permitting, maintenance, and disputes on federal and state lands.
- Environmental Law: Counseling clients on regulatory compliance (e.g., Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act) and defending against government enforcement actions and private cost-recovery claims (like Superfund matters).
- Renewable Energy: Assisting developers of solar, wind, and other clean tech projects with permitting, land acquisition, and regulatory compliance.
Employment & Labor: The firm defends employers against a variety of claims.
- Employment Litigation: Defending clients in lawsuits alleging wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and wage-and-hour violations.
- Counseling and Compliance: Advising on HR policies, employee handbooks, and compliance with federal and state labor laws to prevent litigation.
Other Key Litigation Areas:
- Estate Litigation: Representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries in disputes over trusts and estates, including will contests and claims of elder abuse or breach of fiduciary duty.
- Professional Liability: Defending professionals, such as lawyers and accountants, against malpractice and negligence claims.
- Product Liability: Defending manufacturers and distributors against claims of defective products and personal injury.
- Appeals: Handling all aspects of the appellate process in state and federal courts.
Industry-Specific Focus
In addition to its core practice areas, Fennemore provides highly tailored legal services for specific industries, including:
- Agribusiness: Advising farmers, ranchers, and food processors on issues like water rights, land use, and regulatory compliance.
- Cannabis Business: Guiding clients through the complex and evolving state-by-state patchwork of licensing, regulatory, and corporate law in the cannabis industry.
- Emerging Businesses & Technologies: The firm runs a Venture Accelerator program, offering legal services, mentorship, and guidance to tech startups.
- Gaming & Hospitality: Representing clients in the highly regulated gaming industry, particularly in Nevada.
- Health Care: Advising hospitals, medical groups, and practitioners on regulatory compliance, litigation, and transactional matters.
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