Manufacturing
Representing a wide variety of manufacturers, we leverage our general manufacturing and industry-specific insights to provide our clients with sound, tailored legal advice. The scope of our experience and practice also allows us to provide the value-added service that our clients seek. We can deploy in any given situation one or more lawyers who are knowledgable in corporate and business law, employment and labor, environmental, health care, insurance, and intellectual property and technology law matters.
Transactional Services
We assist manufacturers and related businesses with corporate matters, complex transactions and risk management activities. In doing so, we provide practical, sound solutions tailored to our client’s specific circumstances and needs. Among others, we handle activities involving:
- Antitrust law issues, including price fixing allegations
- Bankruptcies, workouts and reorganizations
- Business organization and governance
- Construction and real estate issues, including acquisitions and sales, declarations, development, financing, leasing, road access, site selection and zoning
- Employment law, including drafting employee benefits plans and managing workplace safety
- Environmental concerns, including air, ground and water contamination
- Financing
- Insurance policy acquisition
- Intellectual property matters, such as trademark infringement accusations and e-commerce
- Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and sales
- Outsourcing
- Products liability claims, including avoiding or mitigating their potential effects
- Quality control
- Supply chain management, including transportation matters as well as acquisitions and negotiations for technology
- Tax planning
Dispute Resolution ServicesDrawing upon the skills of hundreds of litigators, Hinshaw handles diverse litigation for manufacturing clients. Cases that we have handled have involved:
- Antitrust law
- Bankruptcies
- Catastrophic iIncidents
- Employment law
- Environmental law
- Labor law
- Products liability
- Transportation law
- Warranties
Our client’s business goals and needs guide us at all times when providing representation in lawsuits. We therefore carefully consider the best forum and method by which to resolve these disputes. Where a settlement is in our client’s best interests, we will pursue it. Likewise, if arbitration, mediation, or another form of alternative dispute resolution will put an end to the matter more effectively and quickly, we will recommend it.