Morrison & Foerster has substantial experience counseling clients in the consumer products sector. The firm’s clients include
manufacturers of apparel and accessories; beverages; consumer electronics; cosmetics and personal care; food and confectionary;
household and office products; sports equipment; textiles; and toys. Morrison & Foerster consumer clients include Clorox,
Coca-Cola, Hershey Foods, M&M Mars, Mattel, Nabisco and Sega.
The firm is particularly well known for its successful defense of numerous consumer products companies in class action lawsuits,
as well as its work representing businesses and trade groups in enforcement actions under federal and state consumer and product
safety statutes such as California’s Proposition 65 and California Business and Professions Code sections 17200 et seq.
The firm also provides counsel to consumer products companies on a wide array of other matters, including antitrust; corporate
finance; dispute resolution and litigation; employee benefits and executive compensation; labor relations and union activities;
land use, real estate and environmental permitting; licensing and distribution; mergers and acquisitions; protection of intellectual
property assets; tax planning; technology transactions; licensing; and distribution.
