Fortified with a deep understanding of intellectual property and technology transactions, we work with brands at all stages of the advertising lifecycle.
Through our global platform, we help clients substantiate and clear global advertising, marketing, and promotional campaigns—whether traditional print or television, digital content on websites, or social media. Our Advertising and Marketing practice further supports media agencies and media technology providers in crafting and negotiating complex engagements and creating compliance protocols.
We provide our clients with goal-focused counseling. This includes counsel regarding brand selection and protection, brand use guidelines, advertising policies, compliance programs, and advertising campaign strategies. Our experienced advertising and marketing lawyers also provide guidance regarding ad claim review, guiding clients on matters such as product labeling and claim substantiation issues. We help our clients with advertising disputes and challenges, including government enforcement actions, federal and state law claims, and self-regulatory matters. Our lawyers can also handle a broad spectrum of sponsorship, endorsement, and sweepstakes-related legal matters.
We can help clients with a wide variety of advertising and marketing issues, including:
Competitor false and misleading advertising, including Lanham Act cases, National Advertising Division (NAD) Proceedings, and state unfair competition and deceptive trade practices
Consumer false advertising and deceptive trade practices
Food, drug, device, and cosmetic regulation and compliance
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advertising regulations and investigations
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
Data usage, privacy, and security
Advertising agencies
Telemarketing and Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
The year 2025 saw significant regulatory activity in the realm of digital assets. The US Congress and financial regulators took steps to create and implement a clear legal framework to facilitate financial transactions using digital assets, and they will continue to do so in 2026.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) has released its latest regulatory flexibility agenda—the public list of rules the agency expects to propose or adopt in the coming year (the SEC 2026 Agenda).
Starting on 30 June 2024, with the application of the first of two introduction phases of the Regulation on Markets in Crypto-assets across all member states of the European Union, the EU has introduced for the first time a harmonized regulatory framework as well as accompanying passporting rights for service providers of the crypto-asset market, affecting both traditional institutions of the financial sector and new players emerging in the crypto-ecosystem.
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