Manufacturing & Distribution

Experience matters, and Miles & Stockbridge lawyers have served as trusted advisors to the full range of regional and national manufacturers and distributors of consumer and industrial products, from emerging upstart disrupters to globe-spanning industry giants, for decades.

Our heightened focus on this space has positioned us to best deliver holistic services tailored to help industry clients meet or surpass their business and legal goals and objectives.

A number of our industry clients are regular buyers and sellers of businesses in the U.S. and abroad, and are counseled by our mergers and acquisitions practitioners. We advise clients on the legal and business issues involved with raising capital through equity and debt offerings and facilities. We support clients in their commercial contracting practices, developing forms and negotiating contracts with suppliers, distributors and end-customers for local, national and international transactions. We likewise collaborate with our clients in the procurement, management and maximization of the value of intellectual property. We also support manufacturing clients in antitrust and tax matters, as we as helping them meet their needs in the full range of management-side labor and employment matters, including both counseling and litigation, as well as in the design and administration of benefit, health and welfare plans. Our litigators have extensive experience in complex matters, having tried hundreds of cases at all levels of state and federal courts and in commercial arbitrations, including commercial and business disputes involving contractual issues, business torts, trade practices and regulation disputes, alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, mass torts and product liability. In practice areas such as products liability and mass torts, we serve as national coordinating counsel for a number of our manufacturer clients, and provide related broad-based risk management and regulatory counsel, such as before the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.