Practice Areas & Industries: Buchalter Nemer, A Professional Corporation

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Buchalter Nemer is one of the few national law firms with a specialized practice in the textile and apparel industry, and a global industry reputation.

Our Apparel Industries Group attorneys possess a peerless in-depth understanding of the day-to-day challenges faced by companies in the textile and apparel industry. Many have practiced in this area for decades, and many have spent time working directly in the industry. The experience of our Apparel Industries Group includes extensive knowledge of every aspect of the apparel industry, including design, dyeing, finishing, knitting, textile engineering, garment manufacturing, importing, factoring and financing, licensing, wholesale distribution and retailing. The firm delivers top quality legal counsel and an ability to handle matters in every aspect of the marketplace to quickly and efficiently achieve results.

Buchalter Nemer Apparel Industries Group attorneys have a practical understanding of the uniqueness of the industry, the entrepreneurs that establish the industry’s fast pace and the vast marketplace where the products are sold. We provide clients with a wide range of hands on expertise in every phase of industry development. In addition to general business operations counsel for apparel industry organizations, the firm provides extensive litigation support in the areas of commercial law, labor disputes and all other areas of the law that relate to disputes that arise in the general course of doing business. As a result of our global reputation, we are called upon regularly to act as expert witnesses, mediators, arbitrators and advisors to other professionals who serve the industry.

Our expertise includes:

• Labor and employment, including wage and hour, discrimination and occupational health and safety issues
• Business formation and structuring
• Contract negotiations
• Real estate acquisitions
• Leasing of production, showroom and retail facilities
• Stock and equity transactions
• Factoring and financing
• Licensing and franchising
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Import, export and customs matters
• Labor negotiations
• Business financial planning and restructuring
• Taxation matters
• Trademark, copyright and other forms of intellectual property
• Employment and independent sales representation agreements
• Fabric and distribution dispute litigation
• Mediation and arbitration services