Our Food and Beverage Practice offers comprehensive legal services tailored to the industry’s unique challenges and opportunities. Whether launching a new product, expanding a global brand or navigating your business landscape, our team provides support through every stage of growth, ensuring clients can move forward with confidence.
Whether you are a global corporation or a family-owned business, our cross-functional Food and Beverage Practice is dedicated to delivering practical, forward-thinking solutions, combining legal, regulatory and scientific insight, that help to drive success.
Partnering With Clients
- Navigate regulatory agency requirements and ensure compliance with food labeling, manufacturing standards and cross-border trade laws.
- Advise on organizational matters, operational strategies and fundraising activities, including debt, preferred stock, securities offerings and tax structuring and controversy matters.
- Support M&A, private equity and private capital, joint ventures and ECVC matters, including negotiating deal terms, advising on corporate governance, and guiding clients from formation and funding through exits and public company life.
- Protect intellectual property through trademark, trade dress, design patent, licensing, utility patent, copyright, and unfair competition litigation and enforcement.
- Manage worldwide trademark portfolios and oversee foreign and domestic policing efforts.
- Handle complex trade secret disputes, from district court proceedings to Federal Circuit appeals.
- Steer the full range of consumer products-related antitrust and competition matters including greenwashing claims.
- Assist with supply chain management, sourcing components and ingredients, and obtaining OFAC licenses for global operations, to keep global operations running smoothly.
- Provide general counsel support including employment counseling, contract review, and real estate transactions.
- Collaborate with clients to identify risks and challenges, implement proactive strategies to reduce exposure, and, when necessary, defend against consumer class actions, commercial litigation and other disputes.
- Leverage experience in the science behind food and pharma products to ensure compliance and market readiness.
Who We Represent
From startups and emerging companies to Fortune 50 companies, our team represents food and beverage clients in various industries, including:
- Retailers, manufacturers, and grocers
- Agribusiness including livestock and ranching
- Restaurants and food service providers
- Wineries, breweries, and distilleries
- Equipment manufacturers
- Trade associations
- Nonprofits
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