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Peter Nelson Receives 2025 TCB 100 Award

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dorsey & Whitney LLP is pleased to announce that its Managing Partner Peter Nelson has received the 2025 TCB 100 award, which honors 100 people in and around Minnesota businesses who are poised to make news and drive change in the year ahead.

“I am chiefly indebted to the attorneys and business professionals of Dorsey & Whitney, whose extraordinary dedication and many contributions make our shared success possible,” Peter Nelson, Dorsey’s Managing Partner.

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“I am honored to receive this recognition and grateful to the editors of Twin Cities Business for their consideration,” said Peter Nelson, Dorsey’s Managing Partner. “I am chiefly indebted to the attorneys and business professionals of Dorsey & Whitney, whose extraordinary dedication and many contributions make our shared success possible.”

About Peter Nelson

Peter Nelson became Managing Partner of Dorsey on July 1, 2025. Peter joined Dorsey as a banking industry attorney in 2008 in its Minneapolis office after starting his legal career in the Houston office of another major law firm. Prior to becoming Dorsey’s Managing Partner, Peter co-led the Finance and Restructuring Group and Banking & Financial Institutions Industry Group and was a member of the Firm’s Policy Committee. Under Peter’s leadership, Dorsey opened a Chicago office on November 3, 2025.

Each year, the editors of Twin Cities Business compile a list of 100 CEOs, founders, philanthropists, chefs, and more from a wide range of industries.

About Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Clients have relied on Dorsey as a valued business partner since 1912. With locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, Dorsey provides results-oriented, grounded counsel for its clients' legal and business needs. Dorsey represents a number of the world's most successful companies from a wide range of industries, including banking & financial institutions; development & infrastructure; energy & natural resources; food, beverage & agribusiness; healthcare & life sciences; and technology.

Contacts

MEDIA CONTACT:
Carmen Ramson-Herzing
612.492.5194
ramson-herzing.c@dorsey.com

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Contacts

MEDIA CONTACT:
Carmen Ramson-Herzing
612.492.5194
ramson-herzing.c@dorsey.com

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