Food & Beverage

Stradling’s food and beverage attorneys serve a wide range of local and national restaurants, from early-stage ventures to established international chains.

Our clients include:

  • Vineyards
  • Food distribution facilities
  • Alcoholic beverages, including craft beer
  • Growers
  • Specialty products
  • Manufacturers
  • Individual retailers
  • Franchisors

Stradling’s food and beverage attorneys also work with private and institutional investors as well as established banking and financial institutions on a wide range of debt financings, such as:

  • Commitment letters
  • Loan agreements
  • Equipment leases
  • Accounts receivable and asset-backed financings
  • Credit lines
  • Bridge loans
  • Letters of credit

Stradling’s food and beverage attorneys handle the most common to complex issues, including:

  • Startup funding and other organizational matters
  • Financial restructurings
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Representation of private equity firms in acquisitions of retail and restaurant chains, vineyards, and beverage companies
  • False advertising class actions 
  • Commercial agreements such as: manufacturing, distribution, purchase and supply, service, licensing, development, and other strategic arrangements
  • Corporate governance and regulatory counseling 
  • Alcoholic beverage compliance and other regulatory issues
  • Intellectual property issues related to patents and trademarks
  • Taxes levied on retailers and restaurateurs
  • Defense of wage-and-hour and other workplace-related class action suits
  • Employee benefits representation
  • Securities litigation

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