Jeffrey Peterson

Jeffrey Peterson is a shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. in Minneapolis and focuses his practice on commercial financing, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy and agricultural law. He is a frequent speaker on agriculture and finance topics. Mr. Peterson is a former chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Agricultural and Agribusiness Financing Subcommittee, and a former president of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA). He also is a Fellow in the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (ACCFL). Mr. Peterson received his undergraduate degree in economics from Hamline University and worked for two years as a market analyst for CHS, advising producers and grain cooperatives in South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado on grain and livestock markets. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and his LL.M. in agricultural law from the University of Arkansas.