Retail & Consumer Products

Demonstrated Excellence

Latham’s Retail & Consumer Products Industry Group has demonstrated its understanding of clients’ needs in this highly competitive business environment. The firm’s success advising companies of all sizes in markets around the world stems from the practice’s dedication to helping businesses grow and succeed while protecting brand equity.

Valued Advisors

Latham’s extensive experience and professional breadth allow the firm to provide top-quality counsel around the world in virtually every area affecting the retail and consumer products industry. Latham represents retail and consumer products industry clients in matters involving:

• Antitrust and Competition
• Bank Financings, including receivables financings
• Capital Markets financings
• Company Representation, including Corporate Governance
• Employment Law and Benefits and Compensation
• Intellectual Property, including brand protection
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution, including Product Liability and Consumer Class Actions
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Outsourcing and Technology Transactions
• Real Estate
• Restructurings
• Tax

Practice lawyers serve as valued business advisors to each of the clients Latham represents. The firm’s deep understanding of sector-specific issues and value-adding legal services, has earned us top praise for some of the industry’s leading market transactions and cases. The firm’s experience has made this group the go-to provider for legal services in the retail and consumer products industry.

Contact the Retail & Consumer Products Industry Group

For more information, please e-mail retail&consumerproducts@lw.com.

With a detailed understanding of the industry, Latham’s lawyers help companies manage the complexities of their retail and consumer products business. The firm has counseled retail and consumer products clients in some of the industry’s leading market transactions and controversies, including:

• Leonard Green & Partners LP and CVC Capital Partners on their acquisition of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., a leading warehouse chain
• David’s Bridal, a leading specialty retailer of bridal gown and wedding-related apparel and accessories in North America, in its acquisition by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
• Express, Inc., a trendy apparel retailer for women and men, on its US initial public offering
• Reebok International, Ltd., a global footwear and sports apparel company, in connection with a global product recall
• Costco Wholesale Corporation, a wholesale club operator, and Safeway, Inc., a food and drug retailer, in intellectual property disputes. A Latham lawyer acted as liaison counsel on behalf of 270 defendants by the US District Court for the Central District of California in the largest multidistrict litigation patent case in history in which summary judgment of invalidity was obtained on 46 asserted claims.
• Nintendo Co., Ltd., a Japanese video game company, and its partners in the reorganization of international intellectual property rights relating to Pokémon, the global videogame, animé and toy phenomenon
• Sony Online Entertainment, an online gaming company that offers Playstation 3 games, on the consumer privacy and marketing rules associated with its international launch of multi-player online games directed at children

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