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:

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

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
• Representation of private equity firms in major acquisitions of retail and restaurant chains
• 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