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Kevin Slaughter is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group, focusing on middle-market mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the food and beverage industry. Our food and beverage team is dedicated to providing comprehensive legal and business support to clients in the food and beverage industry. We understand the unique challenges and opportunities that this dynamic sector presents, and we are committed to helping our clients navigate them successfully.

Our team of experienced professionals offers a wide range of services to clients in the food and beverage industry and beyond, including:

• Corporate Transactions: Advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions within the food and beverage industry.
• Supply Chain Management: Negotiating and drafting of commercial agreements including manufacturing, co-packing and supply agreements.
• Intellectual Property Protection: Protecting our clients’ brands, formulas (or formulations) and/or compositions, and other intellectual property through licensing transactions, trademark registration, patent filings, trade dress protection, product packaging, and trade secret protection.
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Representing clients in disputes related to distribution contracts, sales representative contracts, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and other legal issues.
• Employment and Labor Law: Providing guidance on employment practices, labor relations, and compliance with workplace regulations.

How We Add Value

To add value and enhance the client experience, we:

• • Strive to understand clients’ businesses and risk thresholds so we can actively anticipate and satisfy their legal needs.

• • Provide day-to-day general counsel to help clients understand and solve complex legal, tax, and business issues at every stage of representation.

• • Build a business relationship with clients as their trusted strategic advisors, not just as their lawyers.

• • Use our extensive experience advising business organizations and their owners to serve as an available resource for clients’ teams on general legal matters.

• • Give practical, market-based business advice and focus on clients’ business objectives.

• • Solve problems rather than simply identifying them.

• • Know the market for relevant deal terms.

• • Develop and refine proprietary legal form documents used for similar and repeated legal matters.

• • Make introductions to other service providers, potential employees, investors, or targets to improve your business.

• • Use proprietary project management tools to increase efficiencies and opportunities for greater cost savings and better execution.