Great heights aren't limited to Titans & Trees
With decades of legal and government affairs experience, our team is equipped to handle the most complex and difficult challenges that businesses may face. Whether you're dealing with general business issues, policy concerns, lobbying, or regulatory compliance, we have the solutions.
SERVICES
Bridging government relations and your business
Policy Advocacy
We advocate for distinct policy stances. This entails engaging with governmental authorities, offering compelling arguments and data that support certain resolutions.
Legislative Monitoring
Keeping a close watch on changes in laws and regulations that may have repercussions for you. Constant oversight on potential legislation, imminent voting processes, and alterations in regulatory frameworks.
Strategic Planning
As businesses expand into unfamiliar territories, reach new markets, or scale, a fresh strategy is essential. Hyperion, leveraging its extensive strategic planning experience, provides valuable insights to achieve your goals.
Business Establishment
Corporate Formation: We guide businesses in choosing the proper corporate structure, aligning with their goals while optimizing tax benefits and liability protection.
Business Licensing: We help businesses secure essential licenses and permits, ensuring legal operations align with all regulatory standards.
Business Operations
Regulatory Compliance: Our legal team ensures your business remains compliant in a dynamic regulatory landscape, reducing risks and legal issues.
Sales and Acquisitions: Our experts guide and support businesses through acquisition or sale processes, ensuring protected interests and optimal value.
Election Finance & Donor Guidance
A successful political campaign hinges on transparent financial management and informed contributions. Our team oversees campaign finances and advises donors on compliant contribution practices. We bridge the gap between campaigns and contributors, ensuring financial integrity throughout.
OUR TEAM
Neal Tomlinson
FOUNDING PARTNER
Neal brings over 25 years of experience and a results-oriented approach to his business and government relations law practice. With an emphasis on regulated business licensing and regulatory compliance, Neal regularly represents various clients before local, state, and federal government agencies, including as a registered lobbyist in Nevada and Wyoming. His effectiveness results from thoroughly understanding his client’s businesses coupled with his advocacy and political strategy experience. Neal’s core clients come from industries such as health care, gaming, hospitality, financial services, energy, transportation, real estate development, nonprofits, and trade associations.
Throughout his career, Neal has taken more than 25 cases to trial in various state and federal courts and tribunals and argued appellate cases before the Supreme Court of Nevada and the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. He also serves as Nevada local counsel to numerous corporate clients and international law firms.
Neal is recognized in the 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America ® for Commercial Litigation and has been selected five times to Super Lawyers ®, a rating reserved for only the top 5% of outstanding lawyers with a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Neal is a United States Army Veteran and served on active duty in the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment 2d Squadron with tours of duty along the communist border between former East/West Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Edgardo Ureta
MANAGER OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Achieving a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship & NCAA D1 Tennis Captainship from the University of Hartford, this individual has made significant strides in their business career spanning eight years. His multifaceted experience encompasses management roles in operations and events for Fortune 500 companies, now demonstrating strong relations with legislators and our clients.
Mark James
SENIOR PARTNER
Mark's extensive background in both regulated business and politics provides our clients with unique insights to navigate the increasingly complex and evolving business landscape. An attorney for more than 35 years, Mark previously served as a Nevada State Senator and Clark County Commissioner. For more than a decade he also served as President and CEO of Frias Holding Company, once the largest transportation operator in Nevada.
Mark advises businesses and public entities on diverse business and political matters, including water and property rights, real estate development, environmental issues, administrative and regulatory law and related litigation. Mark obtained his Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Government form Lewis & Clark College and his Juris Doctor (JD) in Law from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (Order of the Coif).
Denise Freeman
ACCOUNTING & BUSINESS COORDINATOR
With a Bachelor of Science in Management/Human Resources from Park University, and an Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) in Accounting from Laramie County Community College, Denise demonstrates a unique combination of expertise in business projects and financial stewardship.
WE REPRESENT THE FOLLOWING INDUSTRIES
Alcohol & Tobacco
Financial Services
Nonprofits
Cannabis & Industrial Hemp
Gaming & Hospitality
Real Estate Development
Health Care
Transportation
Emerging Technologies
Mining
Municipalities & Governments
Energy & Utilities
Water & Natural Resources
CONTACT
Let’s Work Together
NEVADA
2857 Paradise Road, Suite 301, Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 327-6859