Manufacturing & Automation

Hahn Loeser’s Manufacturing and Automation team partners with companies to develop long-term strategies for growth and managing risk while resolving day-to-day issues. We advise companies in the automotive, aviation, chemicals, consumer goods, distribution, food production, industrial machinery, construction equipment, integration, automation and robotics, pharmaceuticals, and raw materials sectors.

As a full-service law firm, we work with manufacturers and integrators on the many aspects of running their business, including risk management and mitigation, contracting, subcontracting, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions, financing trade practices, supply and distribution chain management, antitrust, labor and employment, intellectual property, tax, environmental, real estate, and dispute avoidance and resolution, including litigation or arbitration when necessary.

Our litigators represent manufacturers and integrators in breach-of-contract, breach-of-warranty disputes, and business tort claims on a nationwide basis.  We also defend manufacturers in product liability, toxic tort and other complex litigation claims. Our Labor & Employment team regularly represents manufacturing and automation clients in union avoidance training, collective bargaining representation, representation before various administrative bodies and day-to-day employment counseling regarding various state and federal laws – including OSHA, ADA, FMLA and FLSA.

Representative Experience:

• Ongoing representation of automation and robotics integrator on a nationwide basis in lawsuits for breach of contract, breach of warranty, and other business torts.
• Ongoing representation of various manufacturers in asset acquisition matters and full-scale mergers and acquisition transactions.
• Ongoing representation of various manufacturers in restructuring credit facilities, Senior and Mezzanine Financing, subordinated debt and other transactions.
• Represent a world leader in supplying welding equipment, consumables, and innovative applications, to negotiate terms of sale and vendor agreements, as well as to provide counsel on risk mitigation strategies in its supply chain.

• Defending an automotive parts supplier in a putative products liability class action involving a crash mitigation system.
• Represented a manufacturer of health and fitness products in a class action brought under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act. Case was dismissed prior to any class certification decision.
• Represented a food manufacturer in wage actions in federal and state courts, successfully arguing Ohio law restricts the collection action to an opt-in class.
• Represented a manufacturer of syringes and other disposables in the medical imaging field, in intellectual property matters and on general business issues.