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Husch Blackwell’s Manufacturing law team partners with companies to develop long-term strategies for growth and reducing risk while resolving day-to-day issues. We advise companies in the chemicals, consumer goods, distribution, industrial goods, and raw materials sectors on transactional matters such as mergers and acquisitions, OSHA compliance, product safety, trademark and patent preparation and filing, and labor and employment. Our attorneys also guide new and established businesses on optimizing growth through the Internet of Things and other emerging technologies.
 
Additionally, our attorneys have extensive experience handling commercial disputes as well as toxic tort, product liability, class actions, intellectual property, and other litigation that can be a fact of life for manufacturers. Our team serves as regional and national coordinating counsel for several clients, including Olin Corp. and Bayer (formerly Monsanto). We also provide counseling on compliance, permitting and enforcement in substantive environmental matters, including land use, pesticide regulation, site remediation, toxic chemical regulation, and hazardous wastes.

Representative Experience

  • Handled an investigation into the safety testing of a baseball catcher’s helmet and drafted filings for US CPSC. Based on our findings, the Husch Blackwell team then led a recall in the US and Canada.
  • Represented a privately owned cleaning products company with its redevelopment and expansion of a corporate headquarters, including a manufacturing and distribution complex, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Worked with the client and the state of Missouri to develop an environmental risk remediation plan and secure Brownfields Tax Incentives to help with the expense.
  • Represented manufacturing company in connection with a multi-year audit of compensation practices by the U.S. Department of Labor, alleging exposure for unpaid time in the range of several million dollars. The Husch Blackwell team successfully persuaded the DoL to conclude its investigation without any finding or assessment of penalty.
  • Successfully represented manufacturing company in a two-count tort action concerning injuries suffered by a truck driver who alleged significant injury from a fall while on the client’s property.
  • Represented manufacturer of industrial refrigeration compressor which exploded at food processing facility. Took over the Ohio state court case during expert discovery. After disclosing new metallurgical and refrigeration system experts, deposing plaintiffs’ experts, and defending new defense experts’ depositions, our client won summary judgment on all counts.
Articles | November 15, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: International Trade

November’s U.S. presidential election will play a significant role in determining the trajectory of trade policy; however, there are also larger trends at work that will likely transcend the election and persist well into the future.

Articles | November 14, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Corporate Transactions

Enthusiasm for dealmaking is growing ahead of anticipated cuts to interest rates, which could vastly improve deal flow heading into 2025.

Articles | November 12, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Transportation & Logistics

After a period of relative calm in 2023, this past year witnessed a variety of disruptions underscoring the fragility of global supply chains amid a larger reconfiguration of world trade.

Articles | November 08, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Product Liability, Safety & Marketing

Manufacturers are currently operating in an era of “nuclear verdicts” and unconventional regulatory enforcement tactics that contribute to a sense of unease and a growing risk profile.

Articles | November 06, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Cybersecurity

As cyber threats increase and attack surfaces proliferate, protecting an organization’s network systems, customer data, proprietary information, and operational technology against unauthorized access grows more challenging.

Articles | November 05, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: PFAS

Between federal and state PFAS regulations, manufacturers face mounting pressures to address the use of PFAS throughout the supply chain.

Articles | November 05, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Artificial Intelligence

As the hype subsides, the real work of integrating generative artificial intelligence into day-to-day operations has begun, and manufacturers are well placed to take advantage across all facets of operations, from design and production to supply-chain optimization.

Articles | October 31, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Labor & Employment

Employment-related issues continue to rate among the greatest concerns for manufacturers, who are under pressure to maintain high-functioning workforces while complying with an ever-larger body of law that regulates the workplace.

Articles | October 30, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Regulatory & Compliance

Federal and state administrative agencies continue to push out burdensome regulations and rulemakings, even as the U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up an historic term filled with decisions that some believe could limit administrative power in the future.

White Papers | October 24, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2025

Intensifying geopolitical crises, increasing regulatory burdens, and uncertain macroeconomic conditions have led to an era of caution for manufacturers.

Blog | September 12, 2024
August 2024 Trade Law Updates
Blog | December 12, 2023
MoCRA: What's on the Horizon for PFAS?
White Papers | November 01, 2023
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2024

With each passing day it becomes more apparent the world that entered the COVID-19 pandemic is not the world that emerged from it.

White Papers | January 04, 2023
Legal Insights for Manufacturing: Outlook for 2023

What manufacturers can expect in the new year.

Articles | August 2020
KC Counselor: Mankind Is Our Business
Blog | June 17, 2020
Pitfalls of Remote Depositions
Blog | February 17, 2020
Summary of 2019 Talc Verdicts
Articles | December 10, 2019
Rock Products: Get to Work
Webinar | January 31, 2024
Legal Insights for Manufacturing
Webinar | July 28, 2020
Combustible Dust in the Workplace
News Releases | March 20, 2024
Husch Blackwell Lands Second Team in Minneapolis
News Releases | September 11, 2023
Husch Blackwell Named 2023 M&A Advisor Awards Finalist
News Releases | August 24, 2023
International Trade Partner Joins Husch Blackwell
News Releases | June 20, 2023
Husch Blackwell Adds Two Partners in Chicago
Media Mentions | January 09, 2023
AzBusiness: Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona for 2023
Media Mentions | December 14, 2022
417 Magazine: Amanda Tummons on Staying Grounded
News Releases | November 14, 2022
Husch Blackwell Adds Two Partners to Its Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation Group
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Stephen Ball and Chris Erker have joined the firm's Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation business unit as partners.
News Releases | November 07, 2022
Husch Blackwell Elects 29 to 2023 New Partner Class
News Releases | September 20, 2022
Husch Blackwell Prevails in Steel Nails Import Matter
Media Mentions | September 15, 2022
Biz 417: Lauren Hawkins on the Art of Negotiation
Media Mentions | September 13, 2022
BizTimes: Rising Stars in Law: Emily Stedman
Media Mentions | September 13, 2022
BizTimes: Rising Stars in Law: Margaret Heitkamp
News Releases | July 11, 2022
Tom Miller Joins Husch Blackwell's Intellectual Property Group

Veteran intellectual property lawyer Tom Miller has joined Husch Blackwell as a partner in its Milwaukee office and Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation industry group.

Media Mentions | April 19, 2022
Ingram's: 40 Under Forty Class of 2022
News Releases | March 28, 2022
Husch Blackwell Welcomes Emily Constantine to Its Government Contracts Practice Group

Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Emily Constantine has joined the firm as a senior counsel in its Government Contracts group

News Releases | December 06, 2021
Husch Blackwell Elects 36 to 2022 Partnership Class
News Releases | June 24, 2021
Husch Blackwell Represents Northern Genesis in Embark Trucks Merger

This latest transaction marks the third major de-SPAC transaction that Husch Blackwell has handled in the first half of 2021.

News Releases | April 01, 2021
Husch Blackwell Expands California Footprint
News Releases | December 18, 2020
Husch Blackwell Elects 23 to 2021 Partnership Class

Women comprise 57 percent of the 2021 partnership class.

News Releases | June 10, 2020
Husch Blackwell Secures ITC Win for TricorBraun-Led Importers

Working with Husch Blackwell’s Washington, DC-based International Trade Remedies team headed by Jeffrey Neeley, TricorBraun developed a coordinated strategy to protect the current supply of glassware available to small and mid-market businesses across the U.S.

News Releases | April 14, 2020
Husch Blackwell Names Catherine Hanaway Chair-Elect

Based in St. Louis, Hanaway has led Husch Blackwell litigation teams on some of the most sensitive and commercially significant matters handled by the firm.

News Releases | February 06, 2020
J.Y. Miller Honored for Support of Women's Advancement in Legal Field

The TIM Initiative Award is presented to a man who is an active champion for women’s advancement in the legal profession.

Media Mentions | January 15, 2020
Patently O: Cancelling a Covenant-Not-To-Sue
News Releases | December 23, 2019
Megan Bricker Joins Husch Blackwell in St. Louis
News Releases | December 19, 2019
Husch Blackwell Welcomes 22 New Partners

Nearly 60 percent of the firm's 2020 partnership class is comprised of women.

News Releases | December 02, 2019
Jessica Prosperi Joins Husch Blackwell's St. Louis Office

Prosperi focuses her practices on asbestos liability and premises claims. 

Media Mentions | November 25, 2019
Hydrocarbon Engineering: Chart Appoints New Director

The team clearly understands my business and successfully aligns with my expectations and targeted outcomes.

General counsel, waste equipment manufacturer