Adrienne O. McNamara

Adrienne O. McNamara is senior counsel at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Denver, Colorado. She advises nonprofit organizations on real estate, business law, and operational matters, primarily serving Section 501(c)(3) and Section 501(c)(6) organizations. Her work includes corporate governance, affiliate relationships, grants, membership issues, and fundraising arrangements. She helps organizations consider how legal agreements and governance decisions support their programs and ongoing activities.

Adrienne earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Louisiana State University in 1987 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1990, serving on the Yale Law and Policy Review’s editorial staff. She also participated in a Pre-Law Degree Program at the London School of Economics and Political Science and clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the Fifth Circuit.

Adrienne handles commercial real estate transactions nationwide, drafting and negotiating leases, occupancy agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and conveyance documents. Her experience includes federal regulations affecting property acquired with federal funding. As outside general counsel, she also negotiates management, affiliate, sponsorship, hotel, convention center, and event-related contracts. This work links an organization’s property requirements with the commercial arrangements needed to deliver programs, convene members, and conduct its activities.

Adrienne O. McNamara received Super Lawyers recognition in Nonprofit from 2006 through 2008 and the Junior League of Denver’s President’s Award in 1995. She is admitted in Colorado. Her practice brings together nonprofit governance, contract negotiation, and real estate counsel. By addressing those connected issues, she helps organizations evaluate their relationships, document transactions, and manage the operational legal questions that accompany educational programs, fundraising, and other mission-related work.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
• Member, Colorado Bar Association

Licensed State

• Colorado

Education

• Yale Law School
  J.D. Yale Law and Policy Review (editorial staff)
• London School of Economics and Political Science
  Pre-Law Degree Program
• Louisiana State University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) Summa Cum Laude

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