
Food and Beverage
Food and beverage companies are continually in need of developing their intellectual property strategies and defending their intellectual property rights.
We work closely with our clients to identify and protect the integrity of their brands to ensure that they distinguish themselves from their competitors. Our Food and Beverage lawyers also help clients with regulatory matters.
We have handled an array of matters ranging from due diligence to business transactions. Our lawyers also offer a full-range of patent services and obtain patent protection for and manage an establishment of food and beverage patent portfolios in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia to achieve clients’ business objectives.
We are skilled in every aspect of advertising and intellectual property within the food industry, including:
- Branding, advertising review, and compliance
- False advertising and labeling litigation
- Procurement and management
- Litigation regarding patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights
- Food, Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics (FDA)
- Due diligence, acquisition, and licensing
Our lawyers have decades of FDA experience. We effectively address the issues and problems that arise for growers, manufacturers, associations, cooperatives and technology providers. Our lawyers also provide crisis management in recall situations, as well as counsel on ingredient, labeling, and advertising matters. Additionally, we provide regulatory strategies for conventional food, functional food, dietary supplements, and medical food. Further, our lawyers help clients comply with dietary supplement GMPs, provide representation in enforcement proceedings, and provide a comprehensive range of other services for the food sector.
Thought Leadership
The Australian Federal Government has just released its budget for 2025-26.
The Hon. Jim Chalmers MP, Federal Treasurer and the Hon. Clare O'Neil MP, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness issued a joint media release on 16 February 2025 titled "Albanese Government clamping down on foreign purchase of established homes and land banking".
On 19 March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff issued updated frequently asked questions (FAQs) relating to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Marketing Rule). Broadly, the updated FAQs permit the use of extracted performance (including for individual positions) and certain performance-related characteristics on a gross basis in advertisements without also showing corresponding net-of-fee information, subject to certain conditions.
On 19 March 2025, the US Equal Opportunity Commission and Department of Justice issued two technical assistance documents clarifying what workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and practices the federal agencies may consider to be “discriminatory.”