Industrial Law

Industrial law forms the part of commercial law that is directed toward manufacturing companies and their products and services. It is an interdisciplinary domain in which technical, economic, and legal matters are closely interconnected. Thinking outside the box and working collaboratively across functions are essential here.

What sets this practice-driven field apart is that industrial-technical matters must be captured and understood in depth before they can be properly evaluated in legal terms. Lawyers work closely hand in hand as part of multidisciplinary teams with product developers, sales and procurement specialists, technologists and project engineers, to structure and prepare product data sheets, development milestones, specifications and requirements documents, or parameters for performance and acceptance testing, ensuring that, in the next step, they can be incorporated into a legally sound contract or subsumed under a statutory or contractual provision.

Albert Einstein

"If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough."

Consulting Focus

Legal evaluation of technical matters and the preparation of contracts, documents, and correspondence designed to meet industrial requirements, including

• project contracts for equipment and plant engineering (including equipment supply, general contracting, EPC, and EPCM agreements)

• contracts concerning machinery, components, and tools — including agreements for their sale, purchase, rental, provision, development, and (security) transfer of title

• quality assurance agreements (QAA)

• investment protection and amortization agreements

• outsourcing, contract manufacturing, and partner production / toll manufacturing agreements

• logistics and consignment stock agreements

• non-disclosure agreements (NDA) and confidentiality undertakings

• know-how protection and know-how transfer agreements