Fredrikson provided wide-ranging real estate guidance to Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON) in launching the development and construction of NEON Collective Kitchens, a commercial kitchen and food business incubator facility along West Broadway Ave. on Minneapolis’ Northside.

Donatelle Plastics Incorporated (Donatelle), a pioneer in medical device design, development and contract manufacturing, turned to Fredrikson for guidance through every stage of its sale to the chemical giant DuPont.

Fredrikson attorneys successfully represented Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota in a case before The Minnesota Tax Court. At issue in the case was whether our client’s property, a Goodwill thrift store located in Washington County, Minnesota, should be taxed like any other for-profit retail store (the county’s argument) or whether the property qualified for an exemption as an institution of purely public charity/501c3 nonprofit organization (Fredrikson’s position). 

Prince’s death on April 21, 2016, plunged millions of music fans into mourning. It also sent his potential heirs rushing to the courthouse, since the artist died intestate. Aside from his six siblings with the most direct claim to his inheritance, more than 100 other claimants emerged in the wake of his passing asserting that they were the pop icon’s true heirs.

Represented by Fredrikson’s Tax Disputes and Litigation attorneys in the Minnesota Tax Court, Alaska Airlines challenged Minnesota’s use of Minnesota receipts when calculating the carrier’s Minnesota Franchise Tax Minimum Fee. This tax is imposed on taxpayers exercising a corporate franchise in the state and calculated based on the taxpayer’s total Minnesota property, payrolls and “sales or receipts.”

The Rural Health Advisory Committee exists to advise the Commissioner of Health on the medical needs of Greater Minnesota. A voice for the dental profession was absent on this committee until the Fredrikson Government Relations team successfully lobbied the Minnesota legislature to add a representative of the dental profession to the committee.

Fredrikson attorneys persuaded the Minnesota Supreme Court that the Perham Hospital District’s three clinics should be exempt from property tax because they were operated to improve and run Perham Hospital.

In the 1950s and 1960s, St. Paul’s Rondo Neighborhood was devastated by the construction of the I-94 Highway. More than 700 homes and 300 businesses and civic organizations in this historically vibrant African American cultural community were taken with very little compensation. After many years in the making, ReConnect Rondo is now leading the effort to revitalize Rondo with a community land bridge over I-94 that reconnects historic Rondo and reignites an African American cultural enterprise district in St. Paul.

Bushel provides software technology solutions for farmers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies. Represented by Fredrikson, Bushel recently closed an oversubscribed $26 million funding round led by The Banc Funds Company with further support from new and existing investors.