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Built for the complexities of the food, beverage, and alcohol industries.
With litigation, regulatory advocacy, and strategic counseling experience, the Spencer Fane Food, Beverage, and Alcohol team helps clients navigate legal, regulatory, and business issues. Our team has established precedents, including constitutional limits on franchise laws and treatment of brand extensions under state beverage statutes. We represent clients before the federal regulators, as well as state and local authorities nationwide.
Our clients range from startups, craft producers, and emerging brands to multinational manufacturers, processors, distributors, retailers, technology providers, and institutional and private capital investors. We advise on labeling, safety obligations, liability exposure, commercial agreements, governance, labor and employment, compliance, financing, business transitions, expansion, and brand protection.
In addition to regulatory advocacy, our lawyers have testified as expert witnesses in judicial and legislative proceedings and helped draft and revise statutes, rules, and policy frameworks.
Our team helps clients address workforce challenges, labor disruptions, regulatory scrutiny, employment practices litigation, recalls, market withdrawals, food safety incidents, and critical operational events. We also guide real estate needs, organizational planning, employee communications, operational planning, risk mitigation, and business continuity strategies.
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The Spencer Fane team is known for its work in regulatory, licensing and distribution matters. It experience spans representing clients in the retail and hospitality sectors including breweries and distilleries.
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Working with Valerie is a pleasure, as you feel confident that you are working with a partner who supports you and who, like you, cares about achieving the results you expect.
She has a very even-keeled, good temperament and asks questions to make sure she understands what we need. She can pivot away from a 'no' and help us figure out how to get to a 'yes.' She knows where those lines are and helps us determine how we can take risks and whether we should.
Valerie is incredibly experienced in the industry. She's kind, responsive and able to point us in the right direction in very complex matters. She's wonderful to work with and would recommend her to anyone.
Hannah is very customer-focused and able to translate the advice into actual business situations.
She is a terrific thought partner.
Head of Food & Beverages: Alcohol
Food & Beverages: Alcohol
Food & Beverages: Alcohol
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