Food and Beverage
Overview
Food and beverage brands face enormous challenges as they grow and scale their businesses in massively competitive marketplaces. High growth brands face additional challenges as they expand their product lines and enter into new markets, all while raising growth capital with high expectations of value creation.
At Nutter, we have food and beverage attorneys who are proud to work with client such as:
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With a deep understanding of this marketplace, Nutter’s Food and Beverage Practice Group is an interdisciplinary team of lawyers with expertise in:
- Corporate organization and structuring
- Angel, venture and private equity financing
- Venture lending
- Asset-based lending
- Vendor, co-packing and co-manufacturing arrangements
- Distributor and broker agreements
- Sales agency agreements
- Trademark licensing agreements
- Warehousing and fulfillment
- Tax planning, including for international expansion
- Liquor licenses and common victualler licenses
- Strategic partnerships
- Patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret protection
- Real estate acquisition, financing, leasing and permitting
- Labor, employment, employee benefit and incentive compensation matters
- Antitrust support and government investigations
- Products liability litigation
- Recall support
- Commercial litigation, including distributor termination
- Trusts, estates, and succession planning
The Nutter Food and Beverage practice group represents clients at every stage of growth, from startups to large public companies. Clients include:
- Brands
- Brand executives
- Retailers
- Distributors
- Wholesalers
- Enabling technology companies
- Angel, venture, private equity, and strategic investors
View Practice Team
Professionals
- William Bernat
- Patrick Concannon
- Paul Eklund
- David Ferrera
- Joshua French
- Joshua Gray
- Jeremy Halpern
- Kate Henry
- Portia Keady
- Meghan Kelly
- Michael Kushnir
- Mark Leonardo
- Laura Marsell
- Andrew McElaney
- Katy Meszaros
- Elizabeth Myers
- Liam O'Connell
- Rory Pheiffer
- Heather Repicky
- Ian Roffman
- Armand Santaniello
- Michael Scott
- James Ward
- Erin Whitney
- Melanie Woodward
- Shannon Zollo
Representative Matters
Representative Matters
- Clean Crop Technologies, Inc.
Nutter served as legal counsel to Clean Crop Technologies, Inc. in connection with its $3 million seed stage investment round.
- Tuscan Village
Nutter represented its client, Tuscan Village, in connection with a $60 million construction loan for the development of South Village, part of the Tuscan Village project.
- Wandering Bear, Inc.
Nutter served as legal counsel to Wandering Bear, Inc., a cold brew coffee maker, in connection with a $1 million revolving line of credit facility from Assembled Brands Capital Funding, LLC.
- Cedar’s Mediterranean Foods, Inc.
Nutter advised Cedar’s Mediterranean Foods, Inc., a family-owned national Middle Eastern food manufacturer and distributor, in its acquisition of Brekki, a manufacturer of overnight oats for healthy breakfast options.
- Hälsa Foods
Nutter served as sole legal advisor to Hälsa Foods, the maker of the first and only 100% clean and organic oat milk yogurt, in connection with its recently announced financing round led by Gary Hirshberg, co-founder and former long-time CEO and chairman of Stonyfield Organic.
- Cali’flour Foods
Nutter advised Cali’flour Foods, the developer and manufacturer of low-carb, gluten-free cauliflower products, in a Series A financing round led by Sunrise Strategic Partners, with participation from CircleUp Growth Partners.
- Acquirer in the food and beverage industry
Nutter represented the acquirer in the purchase and license of certain assets related to an overnight oats brand from a multinational food and beverage corporation.
- Food and Beverage Companies
Nutter advises food and beverage companies on some of the common areas of litigation and regulatory risk faced as they design and implement their product packaging and marketing plans.
- Hans Kissle Company, LLC
Nutter represented Hans Kissle Company, LLC, a manufacturer of private label and branded foods for retail, foodservice, club, and convenience store customers throughout the United States, in its acquisition by Mitsui & Co., Ltd., a Japanese diversified industrial holding company. The total value of the transaction was approximately $108 million.
- Lallemand USA, Inc.
Nutter advised Lallemand USA, Inc. when it acquired Scott Laboratories Inc. (USA) and Scott Laboratories Ltd. (Canada), privately-held companies specializing in value-added products for the North American wine, craft brewing, and distilled spirits industries.
- The Living Apothecary
Nutter advised The Living Apothecary, a probiotic water kefir maker based in Oakland, CA, in a $1.4 million financing round led by L.A. Libations and Venice Brands.
- Catania Oils
Nutter counsels a leading provider of conventional, Non-GMO Project verified and organic oil in all of its legal matters.
- Cedar's
Nutter is general counsel to this family-owned national Middle Eastern food manufacturer and distributor for all of its legal needs and issues.
- DiLuigi Foods
Nutter advises this leading provider of certified quality meats with respect to all of its legal needs.
- Flatbread Company
Nutter represents this restaurant chain with all of its day-to-day legal matters.
- Ipswich Maritime Products
Nutter provides legal counsel to this New England-based retailer of fresh and frozen seafood.
- JSB Industries
Nutter advises this family-owned national provider of baking products on all of its legal needs.
- Margaritas Mexican Restaurant
Nutter is proud to represent this restaurant chain with all of its legal needs.
- Muffin Town
Nutter advises this family-owned national provider of baking products on all of its legal needs.
- MultiGrains Bakery
Nutter serves as general counsel to this privately held, state-of-the-art baking manufacturer.
- Tuscan Kitchen
Nutter is general counsel to Tuscan Brands, including all of the Tuscan Kitchen and Tuscan Market locations.
- Kombrewcha
Nutter represented Kombrewcha (the first alcoholic Kombucha) in its sale to a strategic acquirer.
- Deep River Snacks
Nutter advised Deep River Snacks, makers of premium better-for-you snacks based in Connecticut, in its sale to Arca Continental, the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and parent company of Wise Snacks, Bokados, and Inalecsa. Nutter had been long time general counsel to Deep River Snacks, and had advised the company in its ongoing commercial dealings, intellectual property matters, and its venture capital transactions.
- Wandering Bear Coffee
Nutter advised Wandering Bear Coffee, a cold brew coffee maker, in its recently completed $8 million Series A equity round of financing.
- Defended client against claims of trademark infringement
Nutter represented a client in the food and beverage industry in a trademark infringement case in federal district court. The case was settled before the filing of an answer on terms favorable to the client.
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- Steps Private Equity and Venture Capital-Backed Companies Should Consider Taking for PPP Eligibility04.08.2020 | Legal Advisory
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- 04.04.2019 | Insights
- 03.13.2019 | Insights
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- How to Know and Minimize Your Food and Beverage Litigation Risk: Insights from Nutter’s Matt Ritchie10.01.2018 | Insights
- 05.23.2018 | Article
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- 02.16.2018 | Article
- 02.02.2018 | Article
- 12.15.2017 | Article
- 12.12.2017 | Legal Update
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- 08.28.2017 | Legal Update
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Blog Posts
- IP Law Bulletin, 08.20.2020
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- Non-Compete Law Blog, 12.19.2017
- IP Law Bulletin, 12.08.2017
- IP Law Bulletin, 10.23.2017
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- Labor, Employment Litigation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Privacy and Data Security
- Private Client
- Private Equity
- Product Liability
- Real Estate
- Security Breach Response
- Tax
- Trademarks and Brands
- Venture Capital and Angel Financing
Experience
- Clean Crop Technologies, Inc.
Nutter served as legal counsel to Clean Crop Technologies, Inc. in connection with its $3 million seed stage investment round.
- Tuscan Village
Nutter represented its client, Tuscan Village, in connection with a $60 million construction loan for the development of South Village, part of the Tuscan Village project.
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