Rick L Frimmer
Rick L. Frimmer, JD CPA, PLLC
Rick Frimmer has extensive experience providing legal, financial advisory, and strategic counseling over a 35+ year practice as an attorney and a CPA. His national practice has spanned bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, public finance, commercial and tax litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities law, and taxation. Rick has successfully worked on over 150 restructurings of corporate and public debt, both in and out of bankruptcy, representing nearly every high yield bond fund, all of the major corporate trustees, and many private hedge funds.. He has appeared in more than 20 Federal Courts of Appeal, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Court, as well as numerous state trial and appellate courts.
A Wharton finance graduate and Certified Public Accountant, Rick brings unique financial and accounting skills to every matter, along with a solutions-driven approach to achieving the best results for his clients. He has advised clients in multiple industries, including cannabis and health care where he has advised hospitals, nursing homes, continuing care communities, and adult housing across the United States. Rick represented the German government in the City of Detroit bankruptcy case. Most recently, Rick gained experience on the financial advisory side, as a Managing Director with a leading national accounting and consulting firm.
Rick has been an arbitrator for FINRA and for the San Diego Bar Association. He was an adjunct professor law at Chicago Loyola Law School and at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He has been on public company Boards of Directors and has served as an Audit Committee Chair.
Rick is also an accomplished forensic accountant, who has assisted on many fraud, business disputes, business valuations, family law matters and commercial disputes.
He has a full arbitration and mediation practice based in Northern Arizona, but national in scope.
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation, Family - Arbitration/Mediation
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Cannabis & Marijuana Law
- Marijuana Business Formation, Medical Marijuana
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Health Care Law
- Municipal Law
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
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- Arizona
- State Bar of Arizona
- ID Number: 036002
- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 235821
- Illinois
- Supreme Court of Illinois
- ID Number: 6308413
- Pennsylvania
- Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- ID Number: 23398
- German: Spoken, Written
- Hebrew: Written
- Owner
- Rick L. Frimmer, JD CPA, PLLC
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- Law and accounting practice; consultancy; arbitration and mediation
- Managing Director
- EisnerAmper LLP
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- National Practice Leader, Cannabis and Hemp Group
- Partner
- Schiff Hardin LLP
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- Co-Head Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Group
- Partner
- Lice Forward Hamilton & Scripps
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- Head, Corporate Practice Group
- Partner
- Greenberg Traurig LLP
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- Partner
- Siverman Coopersmith & Frimmer
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- Partner
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Associate
- Dilworth Paxson LLP
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- Harvard Law School
- J.D. (1976) | Law
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- Honors: Cum laude
- Activities: Board of Directors, Harvard Cooperative Society
- University of Pennsylvania
- B.S. (1973) | Economics, Finance, Accounting
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- Honors: Summa cum laude; Herbert S. Steuer Award; Beta Alpha Psi
- Best Lawyers in San Diego
- San Diego Business Journal
- State Bar of Arizona
- Member
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- Turnaround Management Association
- Member
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- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member
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- Activities: Frequent Lecturer
- California State Bar  # 235821
- Member
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- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Member
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- Activities: Frequent Lecturer; Model Indenture Committee
- Certified Public Accountant
- Arizona Board of Accountancy
- Certified Public Accountant
- Florida Board of Accountancy
- Website
- Rick Frimmer