Dennis Knoer Bio

Dennis Knoer serves as outside general counsel to a number of privately held companies, providing counsel and guidance on matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, risk management, business contracts, general corporate law, and shareholder conflict resolution. Dennis has significant experience representing insurance companies, insurance agencies, and registered investment advisors in both buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, as well as corporate governance matters. Dennis works with corporate clients and non-profit institutions on governance and organizational structure matters. Most recently, Dennis guided two Minnesota non-profit private colleges in their creation of a unique governance structure, working collaboratively with the non-profit founding members, the respective boards of directors of the institutions, and other stakeholders. With over a decade of experience representing companies in the food, beverage, and agribusiness industries with their M&A needs, Dennis has represented a large publicly traded snack, beverage, and bottling company in numerous business acquisitions in the U.S. and around the world, and helps nutritional ingredient and food production, processing, and distribution companies buy and sell businesses. Dennis also has years of experience representing clients in the architecture and engineering professions, the SaaS technology space, and the automotive dealership industry, in each case helping them grow their businesses through acquisitions, obtain and manage financing, assess and implement corporate restructurings, manage their contracting process, manage dispute resolution, and structure and implement ownership succession planning and employee incentive arrangements. Dennis represents private equity funds in connection with the acquisition and divestiture of portfolio companies in numerous industries. He also represents clients in a wide range of investment and finance-related activities. Dennis has represented investment banks and numerous private issuers in connection with the offer and sale of securities. In addition, he has experience working with private foundations and individual investors in connection with the review of, and investment in, private equity funds throughout the world. Dennis is a certified Russian linguist and attended the Defense Language Institute School of Russian in Monterey, Calif.