Rick L Frimmer

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.

Harvard Law School

J.D. (1976) | Law

1973 - 1976

Honors: Cum laude

Activities: Board of Directors, Harvard Cooperative Society

University of Pennsylvania

B.S. (1973) | Economics, Finance, Accounting

1969 - 1973

Honors: Summa cum laude; Herbert S. Steuer Award; Beta Alpha Psi

Owner

Rick L. Frimmer, JD CPA, PLLC

2019 - Current

Law and accounting practice; consultancy; arbitration and mediation

Managing Director

EisnerAmper LLP

2016 - 2019

National Practice Leader, Cannabis and Hemp Group

Partner

Schiff Hardin LLP

2011 - 2016

Co-Head Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights Group

Partner

Lice Forward Hamilton & Scripps

2006 - 2011

Head, Corporate Practice Group

Partner

Greenberg Traurig LLP

2000 - 2006

Partner

Siverman Coopersmith & Frimmer

1990 - 1999

Partner

Reed Smith LLP

1980 - 1989

Associate

Dilworth Paxson LLP

1976 - 1979

Certified Public Accountant

Arizona Board of Accountancy

2019

Certified Public Accountant

Florida Board of Accountancy

1972

Best Lawyers in San Diego

San Diego Business Journal

2020

State Bar of Arizona

Member

2020 - Current

Turnaround Management Association

Member

2016 - Current

American Bankruptcy Institute

Member

2011 - Current

Activities: Frequent Lecturer

California State Bar  # 235821

Member

2005 - Current

National Association of Bond Lawyers

Member

1976 - 2016

Activities: Frequent Lecturer; Model Indenture Committee

Arizona

State Bar of Arizona

ID Number: 036002

Since 2020

California

State Bar of California

ID Number: 235821

Since 2005

Illinois

Supreme Court of Illinois

ID Number: 6308413

Since 2012

Pennsylvania

Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

ID Number: 23398

Since 1976

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