Industrials
With global insight and integrated expertise, we power your industrial ambitions.
Digital transformation isn’t the destination for the industrial sector. It’s a fact of life: a constant pushing producers and suppliers to stay ahead in their markets – with all the legal issues that it brings.
AI, advanced production methods, machine learning: technology is moving at pace. So, too, is our legal expertise. Which means we can help you meet the challenges that come with innovation, ESG resilience, diversified supply chains and growth.
Freshfields helps clients negotiate complex public and private acquisitions, JVs and investments while safeguarding intellectual property, navigating global regulation and trade, and mitigating cross-border risks, crises and claims.
We work with industrial companies around the globe, including chemical producers, automotive OEMs, defense and aerospace companies, as well as manufacturing, paper, wood, building material and packaging businesses.
Rest assured that even when you are confronting areas of evolving law, most likely we will have already explored them.
Our expertise earned us Benchmark Litigation’s 2023 US Case Impact Award for work on 3M Company Securities Litigation. But more importantly, it enables us to empower clients to harness every opportunity in a fast-moving, competitive global market.
We relish change, staying ahead of industry shifts to help you do the same. With Freshfields’ deep industry knowledge, you are ready to embrace the future.
Client successes
Advising Stanley Black & Decker on the $3.2bn sale of its global electronic security and healthcare solutions businesses to Securitas AB
The transaction spanned 24 countries. The closing process involved obtaining antitrust approvals in Canada, Colombia, the European Union, the UK and the US; and foreign investment approvals in Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, as well as the UK FCA and works councils in France.
Advising Cargill and the buyer consortium in its $4.5bn acquisition of publicly listed Sanderson Farms
The multi-faceted transaction included the formation of a new JV between Cargill and Continental Grain.
