Firm  Overview

        Venture Law Resources, PLLC (“VLR”) is one of Minnesota’s most entrepreneurial, aggressive and results-oriented corporate, securities law and corporate finance law firms. We  serve  rapidly growing public and private companies in Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and specific regions of the West and Southwestern  United States. Our lawyers have served public and private companies, high profile business owners and leaders, government agencies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and inventors, venture capitalists, broker-dealers and high net worth individuals. At VLR, we offer more than mere legal advice; we offer a broad perspective on the markets in which our clients compete and provide a sophisticated network of national contacts within the financial, regulatory and business communities in which they operate.

        To understand who we are, and why we are unique among law firms, you need to understand who we are not. VLR is a sophisticated business law boutique serving rapidly growing companies, their Boards and management teams in the areas of corporate law, securities law and regulation, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and transactional law. We practice across specific industries:  software;  life sciences; medical device; and consumer;  and business services. We do not  practice in the areas of litigation, health care, family law or immigration. Nor do we lobby or do collections. These are not central to serving our clients. VLR has alliances with best of breed firms that have expertise in the areas of business litigation, lobbying and intellectual property for our clients who need counsel in those arenas. We will not grow for growth sake, spend unwisely on an ornate lobby or art collection or have multiple offices across the United States or Europe. These may make some large law firm partners and associates feel good, but we feel don’t add value to you or your business.  We will only hire experienced corporate attorneys to join our firm, not young associates fresh from law school who clients, ultimately, pay to train.  Many large law firms in Minnesota (Dougherty  Rumble, Popham Haik, Messerli and Oppenheimer among others) and across the U.S. (Brobeck) have dissolved, closed or shrunk in size in the past three to five  years due to rapid or unwise growth, loss of major clients or from being highly leveraged. Many of these firms had hundreds of lawyers and offices in multiple cities at one point in time.  Brobeck in San Francisco (founded in 1926) had 11 offices and  over  700 attorneys at the time of its demise in 2002.