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Andy G. Anderson
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5447

Dina G. Aouad
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5491

Seth A. Brimley
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5449

Andy Anderson helps clients, from negotiation to closing, in corporate transactions such as debt and equity financings and M&A, allowing them to execute with purpose and speed.

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Dina focuses her practice on civil and commercial litigation, as well as labor and employment matters, and is experienced in all aspects of case management, research, and legal document production. She develops meaningful client relationships through an emphasis on understanding overall business operations and her clients’ unique goals and objectives when facing complex legal challenges.

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Seth Brimley’s practice focuses on collaborative client service to develop and implement strategies that achieve successful outcomes before mediators, arbitration panels, judges, and juries. This includes the ability to utilize all forms of traditional and alternative dispute resolution in an effort to achieve business goals and objectives at the end of the process. In addition, Seth has experience handling complex bankruptcy and restructuring matters along with associated litigation.

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William A. (Bill) Clarke
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5466

Frank Crociata
Of Counsel

Phoenix

303.839.3753

Kristen M. (Kris) Dekker
Partner

Kansas City, Phoenix

816.292.8130

William (Bill) Clarke provides informed and experienced counsel to businesses, families, and individuals on structuring business transactions and personal finances, aligning strategies to achieve tax objectives, and developing estate planning goals.

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Frank Crociata helps clients navigate the intricacies of state and local tax laws associated with business operations, structuring, and personal financial transactions.

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Kris Dekker assists banks, financial institutions, and other lenders of varying sizes close their transactions efficiently. He understands that timely execution is critical to a lender’s ability to compete in its marketplace.

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Patrick T. Derksen
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5439

Ashley R. Dickerson
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5445

Samuel M. DiPietro
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5444

Patrick Derksen works with a broad range of clients in construction, transactional and bankruptcy matters, facilitating sophisticated transactions, financings, and agreements beneficial to all stakeholders.

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Ashley Dickerson represents clients across an expansive national asbestos practice as well as in product liability and other toxic tort matters, seamlessly managing cases from inception to conclusion with an intentional focus on mitigating risk and maximizing value.

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Samuel collaborates with families and their advisors to create customized estate plans that consider the specific needs of each family, ensuring the protection and seamless transfer of wealth.

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Nikolas (Nik) Donta
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5471

Gerald F. (Jerry) Ehrlich
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5446

Robert H. Epstein
Partner

St. Louis, Phoenix

314.333.3943

Nik Donta helps businesses and individuals protect and monetize their ideas, inventions, and services through the utilization of attorneys with a background relevant to a growing client base for Spencer Fane.

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Jerry Ehrlich counsels individual and business clients in the areas of corporate and business transactions, federal income taxation, trusts and estates as well as real estate acquisition, sale, and finance. With a diverse background in many transactional law matters, he prides himself in taking a holistic approach to clients’ problems and identifying key business and legal issues.

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Rob Epstein concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, financial services, corporate, and environmental law. He helps clients resolve their business issues, achieve their goals and plan for the future.

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Andrew M. (Andy) Federhar
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5427

David E. Funkhouser III
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5451

Jessica Gale
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5428

Andy Federhar is a litigator, focusing his practice on complex litigation involving real estate, pharmaceuticals, government, telecommunications, procurement, and insurance bad faith. An active member of Arizona’s legal community, Andy chaired the committee that created the complex litigation rules for state court, served as the chair of the lawyer delegates to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and served on the committee that established Arizona’s commercial court rules.

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David Funkhouser counsels clients in complex commercial litigation matters. He is a deeply trusted advisor to many of the nation’s largest consumer loan servicers, mortgage origination companies, and financial institutions, using a client-centric, results-oriented approach to each and every matter he is entrusted with by his clients. David also routinely handles real estate disputes and contract litigation, as well as fiduciary, trust, and probate litigation. He has also defended clients in multiple class-action lawsuits across the country.

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In her commercial litigation practice, Jessica works with business owners and in-house counsel to find cost-effective strategies to further their business goals. She adeptly handles an array of legal issues for her clients, including contract breaches, partnership disputes, business torts, and fiduciary duty allegations.

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Raj Gangadean
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5497

Eric D. Gere
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5460

Dontan K. (Don) Hart
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5493

Raj Gangadean helps clients align legal strategies related to transactional matters with overall business goals and objectives, providing important guidance that allows businesses of all sizes to maintain successful operations and realize growth and financially beneficial opportunities.

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Eric Gere provides thoughtful and aggressive advocacy for his clients’ most complex and critical litigation matters, working to reach efficient and beneficial legal outcomes utilizing the full range of dispute resolution methods regardless of venue.

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Don Hart defends some of the world’s largest manufacturers of automotive vehicles, recreational vehicles, heavy equipment, and consumer and industrial products in multiple jurisdictions in state and federal court. An experienced litigator, he has defended multinational clients in technical and complex matters involving catastrophic injury and wrongful death.

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Richard H. (Rick) Herold
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5453

Kerry Hodges
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5454

Helen Holden
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5485

Rick Herold has more than 30 years of experience as a litigator and trial attorney, excelling in efficiently resolving complex commercial disputes across a range of industries including financial services, health care, real estate, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and securities. He is known for his creative, constructive, and practical approach to problem-solving for banks, shareholders, employers and property owners, often resulting in expedited proceedings to appoint a receiver, enjoin misconduct, address real property or shareholder rights, or recover confidential information or trade secrets removed from the workplace.

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Kerry Hodges focuses his practice on employee benefits, corporate, tax, and labor law. Primarily serving clients in the construction industry, Kerry devotes a substantial part of his practice to representing trustees of Taft-Hartley multiemployer plans, including pension, defined contribution, health and welfare, vacation, and apprenticeship trust funds. He advises trustees in virtually all facets of plan operations, helping them fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities in a complex, ever-shifting legal environment. He also utilizes the firm’s cross-discipline experience to provide clients access to qualified attorneys in other practice groups relevant to their needs—matching legal strategy to each client’s unique objectives.

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Helen Holden helps businesses understand how successfully navigating the alphabet soup of federal and state employment laws can positively impact company culture. Helen brings over 20 years of experience to her focus on management-side employment law, which is evident in the practical advice and training she provides to management on human resource issues. Helen’s clients include companies in diverse industry sectors, including construction, real estate, manufacturing, technology, health care, distribution, and the retail and service sectors.

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Tara M. Hughes
Legal Paraprofessional

Phoenix

602.333.5483

Norma C. Izzo
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5483

Will Kelly
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5437

Tara has been working in the area of family law for over 25 years, is a certified paralegal, and was one of the first Family Law Legal Paraprofessionals licensed by the State Bar of Arizona.

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Norma Izzo helps clients assess complex family law matters and develops successful legal strategies, using her mediation training and experience to seek beneficial resolutions while also leveraging her significant courtroom experience to advocate for her clients in trial.

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Will Kelly is experienced at handling all aspects of IP law with a specific emphasis on preparing and prosecuting foreign and domestic patent applications for software and information technology. In addition, he has experience contributing to open-source online programming projects and helping to beta-test independently developed online software.

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Steven J. Laureanti
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5440

Alexandra H. LeClair
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5483

Jaime Millán
Mexican Foreign Legal Consultant

Phoenix

602.333.5458

Steven Laureanti helps his clients identify, protect, and enforce their intellectual property (both domestically and internationally), develop and grow key technologies, and create long-term strategies and technology roadmaps for building comprehensive intellectual property portfolios that achieve his clients’ overall business goals.

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Alexandra LeClair utilizes her significant trial experience to lead clients through family law litigation related to prenuptial agreements, divorce, legal separation, child custody, child support, spousal maintenance, and post-divorce modifications, providing them with an informed and effective advocate during often sensitive and contentious situations. Additionally, she has experience in commercial litigation and bankruptcy.

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Jaime Millán provides domestic and international businesses of all sizes responsive day-to-day legal advice on all aspects of corporate law, allowing clients to maintain successful operations and realize growth and expansion opportunities.

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Kelly Mooney
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5461

Joel F. Newell
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5473

M. Elizabeth (Beth) Nillen
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5470

Kelly Mooney provides clients with focused counsel on all matters related to federal taxation with an understanding that tax issues impact virtually every aspect of business, investment, and personal wealth management. She works collaboratively with attorneys in other practice groups to structure transactions that comply with federal tax law, offer tax relief when applicable, and provide tax-efficient results for her clients.

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Joel Newell collaboratively advocates for individuals, corporations, and businesses before mediators, arbitration panels, judges, and juries, developing appropriate strategies to achieve successful outcomes in alignment with the unique objectives sought based on the individual matter.

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Elizabeth Nillen combines more than 15 years of employment law background, her recent experience as an ICU nurse, and knowledge as a health care lawyer to investigate employment claims for various health care companies. Beth also handles day-to-day legal affairs for her clients, representing them in all facets of the employment relationship in addition to their health care law-related concerns.

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John O'Brien
Partner

Denver, Phoenix

303.839.3800

Matthew S. (Matt) O'Connor
Of Counsel

Phoenix

602.333.5494

Ryan Osugi
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5448

John O’Brien practices in banking, agrifinance, commercial finance, commercial law, lender liability defense, agriculture law, agricultural transactions, receivership, creditors’ rights, and bankruptcy. He has a national agrifinance practice and has closed over $5 billion in financings on livestock production facilities (including cattle, dairy, hogs, buffalo, poultry, and sheep), public elevators, public warehouses, irrigated farms, dryland farms, ranches, and other commercial enterprises.

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Matt O’Connor counsels individuals, companies, developers, builders, property owners, and financial institutions on all aspects of real estate transactions, accounting for all stakeholders in an effort to maximize efficiency and value for clients in the process.

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Ryan Osugi helps clients with the wide variety of corporate transactions they may encounter, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, real property transactions, and equity financing.

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Michael (Mike) Patterson
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5486

William D. (Will) Purnell
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5487

Scott Rhodes
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5442

Mike Patterson helps businesses navigate corporate, compliance and securities matters. He has extensive experience in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, equity and debt offerings, foreign direct investment, distribution, agency and licensing matters, and market entry strategies. He efficiently resolves legal matters by identifying key issues, focusing resources, and executing on a plan.

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William D. Purnell helps clients define, assess, and minimize risks in an increasingly litigious legal environment, focusing on proactive counsel aimed at avoiding claims with the ability to develop and execute on strategies to efficiently manage overall legal spend.

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Scott Rhodes provides trusted counsel to attorneys, law firms, legal departments, in-house counsel, and government agencies on highly sensitive ethical, professional responsibility, and business matters to identify and address any legal issues related to professional conduct.

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Peter L. Riggs
Partner

Kansas City, Phoenix

816.292.8149

Matthew L. Rojas
Partner

Phoenix

602.333.5455

Jonathan G. Sterrett
Patent Agent

Phoenix

602.333.5432

Peter Riggs is an experienced litigator and regulatory attorney that advises clients across the financial services industry in litigation, government and internal investigations, and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters.

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Matthew Rojas provides a collaborative resource to his clients, preemptively addressing the full range of potential risks related to environmental regulations and associated compliance to keep projects on schedule while avoiding potentially costly missteps. He has experience helping clients address a wide range of issues related to natural resources, especially water.

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Jonathan G. Sterrett assists technology-based companies with their patents and associated issues, helping to identify and secure intellectual property protection for their inventions.

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Spencer Fane attorney Robyn Nordin Stowell

Robyn Nordin Stowell
Partner

Greenville, Phoenix, Tampa

602.333.5467

Robert M. (Rob) Warzel
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5469

Sean Whyte
Of Counsel

Phoenix, Dallas

602.333.5462

Robyn Nordin Stowell brings nationally recognized and extensive experience in the private club, golf, and resort industries.

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Rob Warzel’s practice encompasses all aspects of human resources counseling, employment litigation, and traditional labor law, helping businesses identify risks and equipping them with the tools necessary to minimize the time and resources spent on legal matters. He works with clients ranging from large enterprises to sole proprietorships in complex matters involving breach of contract, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, fraud, negligence, and more.

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Sean Whyte crafts both practical and creative solutions so his clients can successfully resolve business litigation. He focuses his practice on class actions and business litigation matters that often involves emerging technologies and uncertain regulatory frameworks.

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Karen N. Wohlgemuth
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5483

Scott Woody
Associate

Phoenix

602.333.5472

Brian Zavislak
Partner

Phoenix, Dallas

602.333.5456

Karen Wohlgemuth approaches each case in a compassionate and strategic manner to find amicable and cost-effective resolutions to fit the unique circumstances of each case. She is a successful litigator using her advocacy skills to reach outcomes through settlement negotiation, mediations, settlement conferences, hearings, motion practice, and trial.

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Scott Woody focuses his practice on tax planning at the state and local levels, while also handling tax controversies and any associated litigation. He has valuable experience in contract preparation and analysis, Tribal taxation, and matters and regulatory challenges related to federal and state agencies. This often involves assisting clients with effectively structuring business transactions and arranging personal financial affairs to minimize, defer, or eliminate tax obligations that align with a client’s specific objectives.

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Brian Zavislak assists clients in handling the intricacies and complexities involved in commercial real estate development.

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