Our lawyers build long-term client relationships through superior legal work and responsive service. Leading companies like DuPont, Cargill, Target, Guidant, Wells Fargo, UPS and others use Faegre & Benson as one of a handful of preferred legal partners nationally.

We handle many of the largest deals in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. In recent years, our corporate group worked on M&A deals valued at many billions of dollars for companies like Guidant, American Express, Target, Land O'Lakes, Archer-Daniels-Midland, International Multifoods, Piper Jaffray, ReliaStar, Chiquita Brands International, Fingerhut, Funco, and many others. We've also handled dozens of public offerings and private placements worth many billions of dollars, including IPOs for companies like Buca, Life Time Fitness, and Gander Mountain.

Approximately half of our lawyers focus on litigation. We've achieved some of the nation's most significant victories and highest recoveries ever in intellectual property litigation. We represented the plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez litigation, which resulted in what was for many years the largest punitive damage award in the history of American law. We've handled pioneering litigation defending free speech rights. We have served as national counsel in complex class actions for companies like Novartis and 3M. Our litigators have handled cases in nearly every state and at every level of the state and federal court systems, including the United States Supreme Court.

The firm represents established and growing companies in a wide range of industries, including financial services, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, nonprofit, sports, mass media, and technology. Our clients include regional, national, and international companies like Wells Fargo, Target, American Express, Cargill, DuPont, Guidant, General Mills, M.A. Mortenson, Mayo Clinic, Hutchinson Technology, CH2M Hill, Frontier Airlines, BFI Waste Systems, the Minnesota Vikings, Xcel Energy and many more.