Talking shop – A consumer sector podcast series
Leading insights for navigating the big trends and key issues redefining the global consumer sector.
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We work with consumer sector clients globally across all aspects of their businesses, including helping them to realise the opportunities offered by new markets and new technologies, to manage risk, and to address the challenges represented by rapidly changing regulation.
We are in a new era where physical products, digital products and presence, and corporate identity cease to be separate realms. In consumer-facing businesses they now all merge into one complex and crucial concept – brand. We are in sync with this change and our approach to delivering legal services is changing too.
Whether we are working with you on IP protection, responding to regulatory intervention, addressing product liability issues and advertising litigation, implementing M&A transactions, anticipating or solving anti-trust issues, or ensuring ESG compliance, our focus is maintaining your brand's longevity, integrity, and growth.
Recent Experience
Associated British Foods
on its £1.5 billion revolving credit facilities (including for its Frontier Foods and Illovo sugar businesses) and £2 billion supply chain financing for Primark
Treasury Wine Estates
in trademark infringement proceedings concerning the “Penfolds” trade mark, including in the form of written and spoken mandarin and Cantonese language transliterations
Procter & Gamble Company
and its Pampers brand on two separate challenges before the National Advertising Division to competitors’ claims for competing diaper brands
Hotel Chocolat
on its recommended £534 million acquisition by Mars
British American Tobacco
on a number of transactions including its US$49.4 billion recommended offer for Reynolds American Inc
Diageo
on the development of its first Malt Whisky Distillery located in Yunnan Province, China
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Key contacts
Susan Black
Partner, Head of Consumer Sector, London
Andrew Rich
Partner, Head of Consumer Sector, Sydney
刘依兰
中国区并购业务主管合伙人，上海代表处首席代表, Mainland China and Shanghai
Benjamin Rubinstein
Partner, Head of Product Liability and Mass Tort, US, New York
Norman C. Simon
Partner, Head of Advertising Disputes, US, and Head of Class Actions, US, New York
Jean Meijer
Managing Partner, Johannesburg Office, Johannesburg and Africa Group
Alex Kay
Partner, London and Nordic Group
Pietro Pouché
Partner, Milan