Daniel J. Frea joined Wanger Jones Helsley PC as an associate in 2024. His practice centers on corporate, real estate, and agribusiness transactions, with experience structuring and negotiating complex deals for Fortune 500 companies, family businesses, lenders, startups and nonprofit organizations. He regularly advises clients on asset and equity sales, family succession and buy-sell agreements, farmland and water rights acquisitions, secured financings, crop and inventory transactions, joint ventures, and governance matters. Drawing on his background in corporate law and agriculture, Mr. Frea helps clients close high-value transactions with a focus on practical, tax-sensitive structuring and risk management.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Frea practiced corporate law at Vault 100’s top-ranked firm in Northern California, where his work focused on emerging companies, venture capital financings, and mergers and acquisitions. He earned his J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he was a member of the Moot Court Honors Board and served as an editor of the Journal of International Law & Policy and the Business Law Journal. He received his B.S. in Agricultural Sciences from Cornell University, minoring in Crop Production Management, Business Management, and Leadership. Mr. Frea maintains close ties to the Central Valley’s agricultural community, regularly helping out on his family’s dairy and almond farm in Easton, California.
