Faegre & Benson Launches Food, Agriculture and Biofuels Group

Faegre & Benson LLP has launched an industry-focused, cross-practice group to enhance its support of clients in the food, agriculture and biofuels industries. Composed of more than 100 lawyers, this group serves the full range of national and worldwide legal needs for companies in these industries.

To ensure clients draw maximum benefit from the firm's depth of experience, Faegre & Benson has created industry segment teams with leaders responsible for monitoring key legal and business developments that impact companies operating in those areas. The segments include:

"This business model leverages our longtime commitment to and representation of food, agriculture and biofuels companies," says group leader Kim J. Walker. "We are ideally positioned to respond to these clients' evolving business and legal needs and to provide the most cost-effective and time-sensitive support."

Faegre & Benson has also formed legal service teams in core practice areas to assure clients that the firm understands the business context of their needs, says Walker. These service areas include litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, immigration, intellectual property and environmental.

"We are proud to work with companies in the food, agriculture and biofuels industries," says Thomas G. Morgan, chairman of the firm. "Organizing and focusing resources in this way reinforces our firmwide commitment to collaborate with current and future industry leaders."

The firm's clients in these industries include Cargill, DuPont, Pioneer, Hormel, Land O'Lakes, General Mills, ADM, Syngenta Seeds and Syngenta Crop Protection, VeraSun Energy, Advanced BioEnergy and Agrium.

In addition to Kim Walker of the Des Moines office, this industry focus is coordinated by John P. Mandler and Andrew J. Ritten of the Minneapolis office, Gretchen Miller Busch of the Denver office, and Jacob Bylund of the Des Moines office. The firm has more than 500 lawyers in its offices in Minneapolis, Denver, Boulder, Des Moines, and international locations in London and Shanghai.

For more information, please contact Kim Walker at (515) 248-9000.