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.
Insights & Events
Latest
Transforming Agriculture and Environmental Markets with Innovation in Green Ammonia and Fertilizer
Alexi Rouhani Joins Faegre Drinker’s Minneapolis Real Estate Group
Federal Court Upholds Washington State’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act against CAN-SPAM Preemption Argument
Fourth Quarter 2025 Government Contracts Policy and Regulatory Review
Department of Homeland Security’s Weighted Selection Process for H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions
Faegre Drinker Announces 2026 Leadership Transitions
Five Things to Know Now About New York’s Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Program
US Tariff and Trade Enforcement: 2025 Year in Review
IEEPA Tariff Refunds and Follow-On Litigation: ‘How Would This Work? It Seems to Me Like This Could Be a Mess’*
EPA Proposes Revisions to Toxic Substances Control Act’s PFAS Reporting Rule — Adds Several Reporting Exemptions
Insights
Transforming Agriculture and Environmental Markets with Innovation in Green Ammonia and Fertilizer
Federal Court Upholds Washington State’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act against CAN-SPAM Preemption Argument
Fourth Quarter 2025 Government Contracts Policy and Regulatory Review
Department of Homeland Security’s Weighted Selection Process for H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions
Five Things to Know Now About New York’s Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Program
US Tariff and Trade Enforcement: 2025 Year in Review
IEEPA Tariff Refunds and Follow-On Litigation: ‘How Would This Work? It Seems to Me Like This Could Be a Mess’*
EPA Proposes Revisions to Toxic Substances Control Act’s PFAS Reporting Rule — Adds Several Reporting Exemptions
Causation Conundrums: Implications of Georgia Supreme Court’s Interpretation of Statute of Repose in Long-Term Product Use Cases
New California Laws for 2026 and Beyond: What Employers Should Know
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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Judith E. Reich
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