Over the years our product risk and liability lawyers, based throughout the firm's international network, have established a formidable reputation for assisting clients on core product risk and liability matters, including risk assessment and management (in the transactional context and elsewhere), product safety, product recall/retrofit/warning campaigns, crisis management, regulatory and compliance issues, product liability claims, mass tort and class action litigation, cross-border litigation, public relations and media handling and insurance issues.

We are consistently ranked as a leading product liability specialist by the major legal directories, including Chambers and The Legal 500 in the UK, and the Juve Handbuch in Germany. We have been instructed by clients from a variety of industry sectors, including agriculture, automotive, aviation, building supplies, chemicals, construction, cosmetics, electronics, energy, engineering, food and drink, healthcare, household products, information technology, manufacturing, mining, nuclear packaging, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, tobacco and transportation.

For more information please email Sharon Long, practice development lawyer.

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Awards

Regulatory Team of the Year - JUVE Awards 2009 (2009)

Environment, Planning and Regulatory Law Firm of the Year - JUVE Awards (2008)

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