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About the Company

Dorsey & Whitney LLP provides legal advisory services. The firm focuses on employee benefit and workers compensation, restructuring and bankruptcy, securities law, corporate and public finance, compliance, mergers and acquisition advisory, private equity, taxation, and estate planning sectors. Additionally, it offers antitrust, commercial and intellectual property litigation, insurance, malpractice, patent, copyright infringement, and international trade advisory services. The firm caters to agricultural, energy, media and entertainment, life sciences and healthcare, financial services, real estate, construction, and telecommunications industries. Its clientele includes Marks & Spencer, Bloomington Central Station, Western Wireless Corporation, CISCO, U.S. Bancorp, and Springerville. Dorsey & Whitney was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with additional offices in Anchorage, Alaska; Denver, Colorado; Des Moines, Iowa; Fargo, North Dakota; Great Falls and Missoula, Montana; Irvine, San Francisco, and Palo Alto, California; Washington, District Of Columbia; Seattle, Washington; Salt Lake City, Utah; New York City; Hong Kong; Luwan District, China; London, United Kingdom; and Vancouver and Toronto, Canada.

About the Person

Mr. Robert L. Swayze Jr. also known as Skipp has been Chief Financial Officer of Dorsey & Whitney LLP since October 2013. Mr. Swayze served as Chief Financial Officer of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP since November 2006 until 2013. Mr. Swayze has over 25 years of law firm finance and senior administrative experience. At Gardere, he was responsible for overall financial and accounting management, including strategic planning, reporting, budgeting and financial analysis. Mr. Swayze served in leading financial positions at several AmLaw 100 firms and Fulbright & Jaworski. He served as Director of Practice Management at Perkins Coie, LLP. He served as the Chief Financial Officer at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. He was Management Administrator and Controller at Baker & McKenzie. Mr. Swayze is a certified public accountant and practiced with McGladrey & Pullen before beginning his work with law firms in 1988. Mr. Swayze, a 1976 graduate of Westminster College and a CPA.