Bassford Remele shareholder Wynne Reece presented at the National Association for Catering & Events (NACE) EDU Conference on Pathways to Success, leading a breakout session on Navigating Contracts, Liability, and Risk in the Catering Industry, with discussion on the top 10 legal challenges facing catering businesses in 2024-2025.

• As the event and catering industry evolves, contract terms must keep pace with emerging risks, legal trends, and shifting client expectations. This seminar explored the latest hot topics impacting event agreements in 2025, including force majeure updates, cancellation and refund policies, supply chain contingencies, liability considerations, and AI’s role in contract negotiations. This session empowered attendees with actionable insights to structure agreements to protect their businesses while maintaining client relationships in an ever-changing landscape. Whether you're an event planner, caterer, or venue owner, you were equipped with practical strategies to confidently navigate today's contract challenges.

Wynne Reece represents businesses of varying sizes, corporations, creative entrepreneurs, professional entities (such as law firms, mental health practices, or dental practices), and individuals, in a variety of commercial matters, including general structure, client relations and disputes, investor growth strategy, buy-sell agreements, mergers, acquisitions, intellectual property (e.g. trademark, trade dress and copyright), real estate, team structure compliance and mediation.

Wynne is uniquely situated when representing clients, as she has started two businesses and successfully transitioned both of them. She understands the challenges facing business owners and corporate executives and the investment that many make into their business from an emotional and physical aspect, as well as a financial one. This is evident by her inception of The Creative’s Counsel® in 2015 which focuses on making legal work accessible, with relatable counsel; to date Wynne has worked with over 1,800 clients in an outside counsel capacity.

Bassford Remele proudly serves as local and national counsel for many major corporations and Fortune 500 Companies and is a go-to litigation firm representing local, national, and international clients in state and federal courts across the region. The firm provides comprehensive counsel and representation in litigation and dispute resolution, family law, and corporate matters, ensuring prompt and effective service for its clients.

Established in 1882, Bassford Remele is proud to be the oldest top-25 law firm based in Minnesota.

Bassford Remele | March 19, 2025