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How this is put together
A directory is only worth as much as its sourcing. Here is exactly what we cover, where the information comes from, and how to tell us we got something wrong.
Coverage area
Northern Dealbook covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A firm is listed if it actively deploys capital into companies headquartered in one of those four states — whether or not the firm itself is headquartered here. A national fund with a real presence in the region belongs in the directory; a local firm that only invests on the coasts does not.
A transaction enters the deal record if the company receiving capital is headquartered in the coverage area, or if a firm based in the coverage area led the investment.
Sourcing
Every firm profile and every deal entry carries at least one citation, displayed on the page rather than buried. Sources are typically regulatory filings, the firm's own published materials, press releases, and reporting by regional business publications.
Each source records the date we retrieved it — not the date the source was published. That distinction is what makes re-verification possible and what keeps a profile from quietly aging into fiction.
What we will not publish
We do not estimate. If a fund's assets under management are not disclosed somewhere we can point to, the field is left off the profile entirely rather than filled with a guess. The same goes for check sizes, headcount, and returns. An omitted field is honest; an invented one is not, and in a directory of identifiable operating businesses the difference matters legally as well as editorially.
Deal amounts that were not disclosed are markedUndisclosed, never zero, and are excluded from aggregate totals — with the count of excluded deals shown alongside the total so the figure can be read correctly.
Corrections
If your firm is listed and something is wrong — or you would rather not be listed at all — write toeditor@northerndealbook.com and we will correct or remove the entry. Firms that review and confirm their own profile are marked Confirmed by firm in the directory.
Who publishes this
Placeholder. Publisher attribution and the disclosure of the relationship between Northern Dealbook and the law practice referenced in its consultation calls to action are still to be drafted, and must be checked against the current Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct before this page goes live.