Food & Beverage

Wendel Rosen represent clients in the food and beverage, alcohol beverages, restaurant and hospitality industries.  Our food and beverage clients include multinational corporations, foreign companies selling to the U.S. market, closely-held businesses and high growth, venture capital backed businesses. Our restaurant and café clients range from single location businesses to nationwide chains.   We draw upon our years of industry experience to solve legal issues in every facet of our clients’ businesses,  whether they be corporate transactions, regulatory counseling, or litigation and dispute resolution. Combining deep experience, broad insight, and close relationships, Wendel Rosen offers food and beverage clients comprehensive guidance for long-term success.

Corporate Guidance

Regardless of their industry focus, clients turn to us for corporate guidance due to our deep experience with entity formation, intellectual property, human resource management, corporate governance, raising capital, and liquidity events.  We also assist with specialized industry agreements, including agreements for contract manufacturing, supply, processing, warehousing, brokerage, and distribution.

Regulatory Compliance

We provide guidance on regulations and statutes pertaining to food and beverage quality and safety, labeling, and advertising.  We are well versed in federal laws (e.g., the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Food Safety Modernization Act, the National Organic Program, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act) and state laws governing food and beverages and alcoholic beverages. Our experience with the FDA, USDA, EPA, and the FTC and their state agency counterparts helps us guide clients to success.

Business Protection

We know that our clients’ success depends on their ability to mitigate risk and resolve disputes before they turn into bigger challenges.  We offer litigation support for business disputes and class action litigation. Our skilled litigators partner with our clients to defend them from employment, Prop 65, labeling, advertising, intellectual property, product liability, and contractual claims.  We singularly focus on efficiently resolving litigation and minimizing its effect on our clients’ businesses.