Machinery, tools, hardware and components: from concept to market, you require timely legal advice that responds to your need to keep suppliers delivering, your plant producing and customers buying, and paying for, your products. We understand what those relationships are made of, and how to help them thrive.

Whether your challenge is to protect the value of your IP, procure material from customer-designated sources, limit liability or control channels to market, Dentons can assist with advice, agreements and transactions for your situation. From non-disclosure to acquisition agreements, we know the sensitive deal points, targets and market references. We work with your management teams, business units, engineering and accounting professionals to optimize your resources and opportunities.

Dentons can assist with any of the following:

• Protecting your trade secrets and intellectual property, licensing it and selling it
• Improving supply-chain reliability through performance guarantees and outsourcing strategies
• Weighing your legal risks on calls for tender, terms of sale and warranties
• Protecting your margins from supplier and customer pressure, changes in specifications and delays or refusals to take delivery of products
• Negotiating sales terms, including long term and special pricing agreements, supply and installation contracts, exclusivity, private label and OEM sales
• Negotiating process plant contracts for your manufacturing machinery and assembly lines
• Changing distribution channels while limiting transition costs and litigation risk
• Managing environmental issues
• Regulatory compliance

Look to Dentons to understand your challenges and objectives and to help you move ahead of your competition.

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Manufacturing in Europe guide

December 11, 2019

Dentons has published its first Manufacturing In Europe guide. This comprehensive guide gives foreign investors a high-level summary covering everything you need to know about a given country, from establishing appropriate business vehicles, operating, buy side and sell side key checkpoints, and moving your production.

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Dentons advises Rio Tinto on the sale of its subsidiary ECL to Fives

July 31, 2015

Dentons advised Rio Tinto in the sale of its subsidiary ECL, specializing in design and installation of equipment for primary aluminum production, to Fives, a French industrial engineering leader in the aluminum sector.