MINNEAPOLIS — September 21, 2022. Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A., is pleased to announce that attorney Jacob S. Woodard has joined the firm as Counsel in the Mergers & Acquisitions and General Corporate practices.

Jacob S. Woodard has extensive experience advising clients on business and corporate transactional issues, including merger and acquisition documents and agreements, entity selection, preparation of corporate organizational documents, member or shareholder control agreements, buy-sell agreements, vendor and supplier agreements, terms and conditions, transportation and distribution contracts; non-solicitation, non-compete, and employment agreements; and corporate governance documents and minutes. He also works with clients to provide legal and compliance advice, manage a wide variety of business relationships, and develop long-range market strategies and risk-management initiatives targeted to driving growth for the business.

Prior to joining the firm, he was in-house general counsel for manufacturing and retail organizations.  Jacob earned his J.D., from the University of Tulsa College of Law, and his B.A. in Political Science, with East Asian Studies and History minors, from the University of Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS — September 7, 2022. Winthrop & Weinstine is pleased to announce that it has been ranked in the areas of Mergers & Acquisition and Restructuring & Insolvency for Minnesota by IFLR1000, the guide to the world’s leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. The publication, which also ranked the firm for its Banking practice earlier in 2022, noted that the firm does “highly regarded work in financial and corporate practices” and “has an outstanding banking, M&A and restructuring and insolvency practice.”

The IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.

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