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Manufacturing
Overview
As a stakeholder in the manufacturing sector, you operate within a highly competitive global landscape shaped by evolving technologies, supply-chain complexities, and a shifting regulatory environment. Faegre Drinker leverages an extraordinary legacy of experience to serve manufacturing clients, representing companies that make and sell products across an array of industries, including automotive, construction, metals, health and life sciences, food and agribusiness, and consumer goods.
With an international presence, we seamlessly support your operations, expansion, and compliance needs — wherever your business takes you. Our customs and trade attorneys help you manage international regulations, import/export controls, and global supply-chain challenges. Our team also excels in environmental compliance and risk management, advising you on regulatory issues, sustainability initiatives, and environmental litigation. In labor relations, we support you in union negotiations, employment disputes, and workplace compliance, ensuring you maintain strong, effective workforce management.
Our multidisciplinary approach enables you to benefit from our collaborative experience across many practice areas, including M&A, high-stakes litigation, and strategic investment and capital deployment, drawing on resources and insights from overlapping sectors to provide comprehensive, business-focused legal solutions. Our extensive institutional knowledge allows us to anticipate challenges and address them proactively, so you can focus on your day-to-day operations. We act as your business partners and collaborators, evolving with the sector to help you advance your goals and overcome your most pressing challenges.
Manufacturing Segments
Insights & Events
Latest
New Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Petitions on Certain Linear Hydraulic Cylinders and Parts Thereof from Canada, China, India, Mexico, and South Korea
Unlocking the Right to Repair: The Expanding Compliance Landscape
Significant New Obligations for Manufacturers Placing Packaging on the EU Market
Faegre Drinker Advises Pentair in $1.4 Billion Acquisition of Taco Group Holdings
DOJ Returns to Targeted Second Request Investigations, Publishes Model Timing Agreement
Second Quarter 2026 Government Contracts Policy and Regulatory Review
Former 3M Assistant General Counsel Norman Pentelovitch Joins Faegre Drinker Litigation Group
Aligning FDA Regulatory Support and Advocacy
Making Waves: Advance Legal Topics in Other Transaction Agreements
From Refunds to Risk — Understanding the IEEPA Class Action & B2B Claims Landscape - Webinar
Insights
New Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Petitions on Certain Linear Hydraulic Cylinders and Parts Thereof from Canada, China, India, Mexico, and South Korea
Unlocking the Right to Repair: The Expanding Compliance Landscape
Significant New Obligations for Manufacturers Placing Packaging on the EU Market
DOJ Returns to Targeted Second Request Investigations, Publishes Model Timing Agreement
Second Quarter 2026 Government Contracts Policy and Regulatory Review
UPDATE: Additional Changes to the Venezuela Sanctions Program Impacting the Energy, Minerals, Financial Services, and Aviation Sectors
DoD Suspends CMMC Phase II Third-Party Audit Requirements
Richard Tall Discusses Investor Interest in AI Defense Systems in MergeMarket
SB 343 Enjoined: Court Temporarily Bars California from Enforcing Truth in Recycling Act against Any Business
New Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Petitions on Welded Stainless Line and Pressure Pipe from India, Türkiye, and the United Arab Emirates
Events
Past Events
Aligning FDA Regulatory Support and Advocacy
Making Waves: Advance Legal Topics in Other Transaction Agreements
From Refunds to Risk — Understanding the IEEPA Class Action & B2B Claims Landscape - Webinar
Data Center Developments & Transactions: Core Business Issues and Legal Strategies
“You’re Fired!” Legal and Technical Challenges of Terminating a Designer in Design-Build Projects
News
Faegre Drinker Advises Pentair in $1.4 Billion Acquisition of Taco Group Holdings
Former 3M Assistant General Counsel Norman Pentelovitch Joins Faegre Drinker Litigation Group
Minnesota Lawyer Recognizes Richard Bennett and Kelly Fermoyle as 2026 ‘Up & Coming Attorneys’
Faegre Drinker Welcomes International Arbitration Partner Jovana Crnčević in New York
Trevor Belden and James Strickland Named Indiana Lawyer ‘Leadership in Law’ Honorees
Wayne Mason Inducted as Fellow to the International Academy of Trial Lawyers
Faegre Drinker Welcomes Finance Partner Eleni Zodiates to London, Further Strengthening Its UK Finance & Restructuring Team
Helen Tuttle Named a 2026 NJBIZ Leaders in Law Honoree
Alexi Rouhani Joins Faegre Drinker’s Minneapolis Real Estate Group
Faegre Drinker Announces 2026 Leadership Transitions
Experience
Our Experience
Applied Products Sale to Bertram Capital
LCI Industries Closes $460M Convertible Notes Offering and Completes $1B in Refinancing
Industrial Materials Company Acquires 82% Equity Interest in Health Care Adhesives Corporation
Manufacturing Client Prevails in Worker’s Compensation Retaliation Suit; Affirmed on Appeal
Home Improvement Retailer Secures Significant Seventh Circuit Victory in Contract-Formation Dispute
Claros Technologies Secures $18M in Series A Financing
Meet The Team
Meet The Full Manufacturing Team
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Catherine H. Betts
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Ben Buckles
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Mary Susan Gerber
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Judith E. Reich
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