Date: May 31, 2011
Contact: Kelly Griffith, Marketing Manager
Phone: (612) 492-7514
Email: kgriffith@fredlaw.com

For Immediate Release

Kim Lowe Elected At-Large Director
of the Hennepin County Bar Association

Minneapolis, MN May 31, 2011 – – Fredrikson & Byron attorney Kim Lowe was elected one of five At-Large Directors of the Board of Directors of the Hennepin County Bar Association for the 2011-12 fiscal year. The Hennepin County Bar Association is the largest of Minnesota’s local bar associations, with a membership of 8,400 members, serving the profession and the public.

Lowe is a shareholder in Fredrikson & Byron’s Corporate, Securities, and Nonprofit Groups. She advises private and public companies and partnerships, nonprofit organizations and cooperatives on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, SEC and IRS compliance, joint ventures, complex reorganizations, and corporate governance. Lowe works with entrepreneurs, multi-generation families, executive management, shareholders, and investors on transactions involving all aspects of the business life cycle including formation, capital raising, joint ventures, reorganizations, and exits. Lowe also works with charities, foundations, churches, educational organizations and trade associations in all aspects of the nonprofit business life cycle including entity selection, formation, obtaining and maintaining tax-exemption, bank and bond financing, joint ventures, reorganizations, mergers and dissolutions.

Fredrikson & Byron is a 240 attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Bismarck, Des Moines, Fargo, Monterrey, Mexico, and Shanghai, China. We’ve built a reputation as the firm “where law and business meet” by bringing business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking to our work with clients, and by operating as business advisors and strategic partners as well as legal counselors. The firm’s primary areas of practice include advertising, banking, corporate, corporate governance, employment and labor, energy and renewable energy, government relations, healthcare, intellectual property, international, life sciences, litigation, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, securities, and tax. We serve a broad range of clients, including multinational corporations, public companies, privately-held businesses, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and family businesses. Fredrikson & Byron’s attorneys also work with individuals on estate planning, family law, and immigration matters. We are the exclusive Minnesota law firm member of the World Services Group, a worldwide network of professional service providers. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com.