Our team includes many attorneys who have worked in-house at a chemicals company, been seconded to a chemicals company, and who have otherwise represented chemicals companies for years. Having seen businesses like yours from the inside, we know how to support you to achieve your ambitions.
Whatever type of matter you’re dealing with, we can help you with any and every issue that arises because we’re immersed in the sector and understand the nuances. We can also offer an international footprint that matches your own. As a global law firm, we can provide seamless advice in any jurisdiction whether it is for a day-to-day operational matters or your most complex mandates.
It doesn’t matter whether you need help buying or selling a business, restructuring a team, dealing with labor union or works council issues, creating or managing a joint-site manufacturing arrangement, settling a dispute or solving an environmental challenge, our team is experienced in dealing with those issues in your sector.
This understanding can be invaluable to your business. We work with most of the big companies in the sector and chances are, we’ve seen issues like yours before and will have a solution we can tailor to your needs. You won’t be paying us to learn on the job and we can respond quickly to any situation. Whatever your needs, we look forward to helping you to meet them in an agile and responsive way.
Our lawyers have extensive experience advising chemicals companies of all sizes on all matters. Sample experience includes advising:
- an international chemical company on the disposal of its leading advanced coating systems business for $4.9bn
- an international chemical company on the sale of its equity interest in a leading biotechnology company to a Danish bio-based company for $419 million
- a US chemical company in the remediation of several contaminated sites, in drafting of a major decommissioning agreement and in the REACH compliance
- a leading multinational specialty chemical company in patenting genetically engineered organisms producing thickening agents for oil exploration, pharmaceuticals and food preparation
- a large chemicals and building products manufacturer in a $3.8 billion enterprise value cash merger following a hostile public acquisition offer, proxy fight and strategic alternatives process
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