Capabilities / Companion Animal Health
Our team handles virtually all legal and regulatory challenges faced by companies in the petfood and pet products industry.
Husch Blackwell provides clients engaged in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of petfood and pet products a comprehensive legal and strategic resource to tackle their toughest business challenges and to manage risk.
Our team is capable of addressing legal and regulatory issues from laboratory to store shelf and covers multiple legal practice areas and brings industry-specific knowledge to every representation. For both established and emerging companies, we advise on corporate finance, corporate transactions, and governance issues. Our litigation and regulatory lawyers counsel clients in connection with commercial litigation, class actions, and government investigations and enforcement actions. We routinely handle:
- Intellectual property law;
- Labeling, advertising, and marketing claims, including all aspects of litigation in connection with claims of false or misleading advertising;
- Commercial litigation, including contract disputes;
- Commercial contracting, including white label, private label, and contract manufacturing;
- Product recalls and product liability disputes;
- Regulatory aspects pertaining to corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances;
- Corporate restructuring; and
- Data privacy.
We also bring a host of targeted practice areas—like our Cannabis law team and our State Attorneys General practice—to bear on representations involving highly specific areas of law. In all matters, our companion animal health clients benefit from Husch Blackwell’s nationwide network of lawyers and our ability to develop customized teams capable of addressing the complex, interlocking issues faced by industry participants.