THE HARLAN HICKORY GROUP
Legal Advisors For Businesses & Individuals
Business & Corporate Services
The Harlan Hickory Group offers a dynamic and comprehensive legal service tailored to the unique needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Estate Planning SERVICES
The Harlan Hickory Group practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, and trust administration.
Real Estate Services
The Harlan Hickory Group’s practice encompasses a wide spectrum of real estate matters, tailored to meet the unique needs of each client, whether they are individuals, families, investors, or developers.
Based in Minnesota, our boutique business consulting and legal services group specializes in business, real estate, and estate planning. The Harlan Hickory Group provides personalized legal solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, real estate transactions, and comprehensive estate planning services. Our dedicated team combines deep local expertise with a client-centered approach, ensuring tailored advice and effective legal strategies to protect your interests and support your personal and professional goals in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida.
Business & Corporate Services
With an acute understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by SMBs in today’s competitive landscape, The Harlan Hickory Group is dedicated to providing strategic legal solutions that foster growth, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance.
Our practice is committed to serving as a trusted legal advisor to entrepreneurs, startups, family-owned businesses, and established mid-sized companies across a variety of industries. We offer a full range of legal services designed to support the lifecycle of a business, from formation and structuring to expansion and succession planning. With Harlan Hickory, SMBs find not only a legal representative but a strategic partner committed to their success and growth in the ever-evolving business world.
Our Services
- Business Formation and Structuring: Advising on the selection and formation of appropriate business entities, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, tailored to the business objectives and needs of clients.
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation: Crafting clear, concise, and enforceable contracts that protect the interests of the business, including service agreements, supply contracts, partnership agreements, and employment contracts.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring that businesses are in full compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, thereby avoiding costly litigation and penalties. This includes advising on employment law, consumer protection, and industry-specific regulations.
- Intellectual Property Protection: Assisting businesses in securing and protecting their intellectual property rights, including trademarks, copyrights, and patents, to safeguard their brand and competitive advantage.
- Dispute Resolution and Litigation: Offering skilled representation in disputes, whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation, to resolve conflicts in a manner that is both cost-effective and aligned with business goals.
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Sales: Guiding businesses through the complexities of mergers, acquisitions, and sales, ensuring a smooth transition and optimizing financial and operational outcomes.
Outside General Counsel
We routinely works on the day-to-day business issues of clients. The Harlan Hickory Group has served as in-house or outside general counsel for some of the most recognized businesses and families in Minnesota, Florida, and the country. Many of Harlan Hickory’s clients think of us as “their lawyer” for any legal issue related to their business and they have done so for over 13 years.
Estate Planning Services
Real Estate Services
From Our Clients
★★★★★
“As a real estate investor, Wade Abed is one of my go-to attorneys for closing services and legal advice. I trust Wade’s experience and know that he is looking out for my best interest and not missing any details that might leave me exposed in a real estate transaction. Simple or complex, Wade Abed can be trusted for all of your real estate needs from estate planning to closing services!”
– Geoff
★★★★★
I have worked with Wade for 10 plus years in our community. He has provided legal advice for businesses, nonprofits, and projects we have worked on together. I highly value the relationship we have developed over that period of time and I regularly refer him to others. He provides great levels of expertise while at the same time he provides a common sense approach that is easy to understand. I highly recommend his legal services.”
– Shannon
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Wade in a professional setting for more than a decade. Wade is always professional, competent, and timely with his work. He’s always willing to help when needed and his helpfully direct in his conversations with clients. Bottom line is, I trust Wade.”
– Matt
About Us
Wade H. Abed II is an attorney with over 13+ years of experience in small and medium size business representation, trust and estate planning, and represents residential and commercial real estate clients. Wade currently serves as the Executive Vice President (EVP) and Corporate Counsel for a large commercial real estate company located in the Greater Twin Cities area. Wade previously served as EVP and Corporate Counsel for Profinium bank and trust in Minnesota. Wade’s private and in-house legal practice focuses on banking, trusts and estates, finance, technology, real estate and lending, and brokerage law. Since 2015, Wade has taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato in the College of Business and the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology.
Wade earned his bachelor’s degree (BS) in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. Wade also earned his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Wade is a founder and former managing shareholder of the Knutson, Casey, Koberoski + Abed law firm. Wade was also an associate attorney at Farrish Johnson Law Office in Mankato, Minnesota. Wade previously worked in the Minneapolis law firm Leonard, O’Brien, Spencer, Gale & Sayre.
Wade currently lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with his wife, Kellie, and two sons, Miles and Lincoln (ages 14 and 13). The Abed’s have a rambunctious miniature schnauzer named Piper. For fun, Wade and Kellie take the kids outdoor adventuring, with a particular love for Lake Superior’s sandy Wisconsin shores. Every year, Wade battles his lifelong commitment to the Chicago Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks, and Cubs (Wade grew up north of Chicago, IL). Wade remains grateful for the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Championship.