Representing businesses in the negotiation and completion of business transactions, Rick’s practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, joint ventures, and financing transactions. His practice emphasizes corporate and commercial finance, tax, real estate, and estate planning.  Rick has extensive experience in 1031 like kind exchanges and complex tenants-in-common transactions.  Rick also works with regional and national lenders and has experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting, and closing commercial and corporate finance transactions including senior debt, subordinated debt, and private equity transactions, secured, mezzanine, and securitized financing transactions, and corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. 

Rick speaks at business conferences and special franchise finance industry events.  In addition to speaking, Rick contributes to franchise finance industry publications and has been honored by Franchise Times as one of franchising’s top 100 “Legal Eagles”.  He has also been selected as a “Super Lawyer” by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. 

Graduating from Arizona State University with a B.S. degree in finance, Rick earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota.  He is also a Certified Public Accountant and began his career with the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.