We provide advice on a whole range of issues affecting the chemicals industry. The importance we attach to our work in the sector is reflected by the fact that we are one of the few law firms to have a chemicals sector group. The team brings together specialists from a variety of practice areas who are active in the sector and familiar with the particular issues affecting the industry, enabling us to provide a comprehensive, seamless and specialised service.

Our experience includes several of the sector's recent major public and private M&As, as well as infrastructure projects, project finance, joint ventures and other commercial transactions. Transactions are by no means the whole story though. We advise on the effective management of the commercial, environmental, regulatory and liability risks associated with chemical products (such as regulatory compliance, risk/crisis management, materials transport, end-of-life and waste disposal); real estate and planning issues arising from splitting and operating major chemical manufacturing sites; antitrust, competition and trade issues (including merger control, joint research and development and joint production or swaps); and IP issues (such as management of conflicts and patent litigation). All this positions us to provide a highly focused and value-adding service.

This experience and expertise - combined with our strength in depth across the various legal practice areas and our ability, through our extensive network of offices, to cover all of the principal business and financial centres in Europe and Asia - puts us in a position to provide an exceptional level of advice and service to clients in the chemicals sector, on the issues that really matter to them.

For more information please contact Simon O'Leary, business development manager.

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Carbon Crush: ICIS Chemical Business 14-20 July 2008  View

REACH: what the EU’s new chemical reforms mean for consumer products companies  View

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