Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere

What Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere does

Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere (BTJD) is a full-service commercial law firm founded in 1994 in Salt Lake City, Utah, organized as a Utah LLC and privately held by its partners. The firm operates from two Utah offices — its Salt Lake City headquarters at 3165 East Millrock Drive and a secondary office in Lehi at 3401 North Thanksgiving Way — and serves clients across four practice areas: Corporate (including venture capital, M&A, corporate governance, tax, and technology licensing), Litigation (commercial, employment, construction, securities, and appellate), Real Estate (acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and land use), and Trusts & Estates (planning, administration, and probate).

BTJD has grown to more than 50 attorneys and almost 100 total employees since its founding by Steven W. Bennett, Barry N. Johnson, and Monte M. Deere, Jr. Its revenue model is the traditional professional services fee structure — hourly billing, fixed fees, and contingency arrangements — with no proprietary technology platform; delivery is direct attorney-to-client, distributed through the two physical offices and a referral-driven go-to-market. Documented matters include a $75 million software company sale, a $50M+ HMO stock sale, $21M+ in equity financings for a software company, a $16M staged equity financing for a restaurant chain, a $25M+ waste management recapitalization, a ~$10M leveraged buyout, and a $100M+ staged acquisition/financing/restructure for a 1,000,000+ square foot technology park developer, demonstrating concentration in mid-market and upper-middle-market commercial work within the Utah market.

The firm differentiates on talent (attorneys with BYU, University of Michigan, Yale, University of Utah, and Willamette credentials, including lateral hires from Dorsey & Whitney and clerkships for the U.S. Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit), on statutory authority (founding partner Bennett as principal draftsman of the Utah LLC Act; partner Robert S. Tippett as principal author of Utah's asset protection trust statute and author of The Utah Law of Trusts & Estates), and on peer recognition (multiple attorneys named to Utah Legal Elite and Mountain States Super Lawyers, including an AV Preeminent rating for partner James K. Tracy). BTJD has no disclosed external funding, parent company, or M&A history; growth has been entirely organic over 30 years.

Name

Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere

Legal name

Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere, LLC

Website

https://btjd.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere is a full-service Utah commercial law firm (founded 1994) with 50+ attorneys across Salt Lake City and Lehi, serving corporate, litigation, real estate, and trusts & estates clients in the regional market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Salt Lake City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Professional Fees: Traditional law firm revenue model based on professional legal services fees, including hourly billing, fixed fees for specific matters, and potentially contingency fees for certain litigation matters. The firm handles complex transactions including M&A, venture capital financing, real estate development, and litigation representation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

BTJD is a full-service commercial law firm that represents businesses and individuals across four practice areas—Corporate (venture capital financing, M&A, corporate governance, securities, equity compensation, tax), Litigation (commercial, employment, securities, construction, real estate, and appellate matters), Real Estate (acquisition, development, financing, leasing, zoning, 1031 exchanges), and Trusts & Estates (estate planning, probate, asset protection, charitable planning). Its attorneys advise startups through public companies and developers through high-net-worth families, anchored by a 30-year Utah track record and founders who authored foundational Utah business and trust statutes.

Product overview

Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere (BTJD) is a full-service Utah law firm, not a technology product company. The firm provides legal services across four primary practice areas: Corporate (including venture capital, M&A, corporate governance, tax, and technology licensing), Litigation (including appeals, securities, employment, commercial, construction, and real estate litigation), Real Estate (including development, transactions, and financing), and Trusts & Estates (including planning, administration, and probate). These are legal service offerings, not technology products or software.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate Practice Full-service corporate legal representation covering venture capital financing, convertible debt, SAFE and KISS transactions, entity formation, incentive equity and executive compensation, stockholder and operating agreements, seed and Series A financings, mergers and acquisitions, and securities offerings and SEC regulatory compliance. Targeted at startups, emerging companies, investors, and mature closely-held and public companies requiring sophisticated transactional and governance counsel.
• Litigation Practice Commercial litigation representation across commercial disputes, employment litigation, securities fraud, trade secret, class actions, partnership disputes, creditor/debtor matters, construction defect, real estate development disputes, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, and appellate matters. Serves businesses and individuals facing complex civil disputes and high-stakes litigation.
• Real Estate Practice Real estate legal representation covering acquisition, development, financing, land use and zoning, construction contracts, commercial leasing, 1031 exchanges, title issues, and multi-stage project structuring for developers, investors, and property owners. Engagements include large-scale technology parks, commercial projects, and staged acquisitions and recapitalizations.
• Trusts & Estates Practice Estate planning, trust administration, probate, gift and estate tax planning, charitable planning, guardianship, and asset protection services for individuals and families; includes statutory asset protection trust structuring and conservatorship representation. Serves high-net-worth families, individuals, and fiduciaries; anchored by partner Robert S. Tippett, principal author of Utah's asset protection trust statute and author of The Utah Law of Trusts & Estates.

Quantifiable outcome

• Represented software company in $75M sale transaction
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• For The KidsminorOthersBTJD supports For The Kids, a community organization helping children in Utah through mentoring and feeding programs.
• Utah Food BankminorOthersBTJD supports Utah Food Bank, which has served those in need throughout Utah for over 116 years, working to fight hunger statewide.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Stoel Rives: Pacific Northwest and Mountain West full-service firm; broader geographic incumbent that competes with BTJD for Utah-based corporate and real estate work.
• Snell & Wilmer: Large Mountain West law firm with a Salt Lake City office and full-service corporate, real estate, and litigation capabilities. A broader incumbent that competes for the same Utah mid-market and growth-company mandates as BTJD.
• Holland & Hart: Mountain West regional full-service law firm with a major Salt Lake City office and similar corporate, real estate, and litigation practices. Larger and broader in geographic footprint than BTJD but competes head-to-head for Utah corporate and M&A work.

Direct peers

• Ray Quinney & Nebeker: Mid-sized Salt Lake City full-service firm with strong corporate, real estate, litigation, and estates practices; competes for similar Utah mid-market mandates.
• Parsons Behle & Latimer: Largest Utah-based full-service commercial law firm where co-founder Barry Johnson previously practiced. Directly comparable multi-practice firm serving corporate, litigation, real estate, and estates clients across the same Utah market with a similar attorney base.
• Fabian VanCott: Long-standing Salt Lake City full-service law firm serving business, real estate, and individual clients with comparable practice breadth to BTJD in the same local market.
• Durham Jones & Pinegar: Large Utah-based full-service law firm with comparable corporate, M&A, real estate, litigation, and trusts & estates practices serving similar Utah business and individual clients.
• Kirton McConkie: Large Salt Lake City-based full-service firm with comparable corporate, real estate, litigation and estates practices; competes directly for Utah enterprise and high-net-worth clients.
• Christensen & Jensen: Salt Lake City-based law firm with strong litigation practice and complementary corporate and real estate work, serving similar Utah mid-market clients.

Regional players

• Strong & Hanni: Salt Lake City-based full-service firm with similar practice mix including corporate, real estate, litigation, and trusts & estates; smaller peer competing in the same Utah regional market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/btjdlaw

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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