Nena Lenz Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I am an attorney at Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. who specializes in federal, state, tribal, and local government contracts and grants, with a focus on infrastructure.Over the past 20 years, I have represented clients doing business with each federal executive department spanning hundreds of federal programs, as well as dozens of states and hundreds of local government and quasi-governmental entities. I provide skilled negotiation, compliance counselling, and strategic crisis management to help clients thrive in this complex regulatory environment. My clients design the public infrastructure we rely on and employ the people who build it. They partner with government agencies on cutting-edge energy research and manufacture advanced construction technologies for publicly-funded projects. They provide environmental testing and remediation services and make the filtration systems that clean our water.I help clients succeed in the pursuit and performance of projects through small business programs, including SBA mentor-protégé programs. I help clients resolve project performance issues, such as through negotiating requests for equitable adjustment and change orders, enabling the successful completion of projects without disputes.Since public funding comes with strings attached, I help my clients navigate ever-changing rules and regulations on domestic sourcing, prevailing wage, and small business programs. And during times of crisis, I evaluate claims of noncompliance and provide advice on how to proceed.I help clients tailor policies to fit their organization and conduct trainings. I design client-specific internal compliance reviews, covering issuing ranging from small business programs to grant administration to domestic sourcing.Because they are sovereign nations, doing business with Native American Tribes and Alaska Native Communities involves attention to a complex web of regulations. I help companies navigate TERO regulations and Indian preference programs.

Board Chair 2012 and 2013

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Associate in Dorsey’s Regulatory Affairs Group practicing in the areas of Real Estate and Land Use, Public Finance and Incentives, State and Local Government Law, Government Contracting, Environmental Law, Construction Law, Project Development, Regulatory Compliance and Political Law. I help companies and local governments secure government incentives and partner, as appropriate, to accomplish complex land use, development, redevelopment, employment, and infrastructure goals.

I teach Local Economic Development during the spring semester at the University of Minnesota Law School. The course examines the tools that local governments and their partners can use to control and spur economic development.

Provide legal assistance to low income and immigrant workers

Provide legal assistance to minority owned business start-ups.

Federal Civil Procedure

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Ba, Global Studies And Philosophy

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