Practice Areas & Industries: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

At Hinshaw, we assist the distribution and warehousing industry with the full spectrum of corporate, regulatory and transactional topics as well as in diverse litigation.

Our clients include distribution and warehouse facilities as well as industrial parks. We also advise and represent developers, lenders, retailers and transportation businesses.

Services Available

Business and Transactional Services
We leverage our experience-based understanding of the distribution and warehousing industries to assist businesses and decision makers with corporate matters and complex transactions. In doing so, we provide practical, sound solutions tailored to our client’s specific circumstances and needs. Among others, we handle activities involving:

• Antitrust law
• Bankruptcies, workouts and reorganizations
• Business organization and governance
• Employee benefits plans
• Employment law, such as employee handbooks and avoiding employer’s liability
• Environmental concerns
• Labor law, such as collective bargaining and avoiding or managing strikes
• Mergers, acquisitions and sales
• Intellectual property rights
• Quality control
• Real estate issues, including acquisitions and sales, construction, declarations, development, financing, leasing, road access, site selection and zoning
• Taxation
• Transportation matters

Regulatory Services
We are also experienced in assisting distribution and warehousing clients with diverse regulatory matters. For example, we conduct compliance audits and reviews. In doing so, we help ensure that our clients both comply with applicable laws and regulations and maintain the safety and efficiency of their operations. Where our clients have been accused of violating a regulation, we have provided the vigorous representation required to effectively address the charge.

Dispute Resolution Services
Drawing upon the skills of hundreds of litigators, Hinshaw handles diverse litigation for distribution and warehousing clients. Cases that we have handled have involved:

• Bankruptcies
• Employment law
• Environmental law
• Labor law
• Transportation law

Our client’s business goals and needs guide us at all times when providing representation in lawsuits. We therefore carefully consider the best forum and method by which to resolve these disputes. Where a settlement is in our client’s best interests, we will pursue it. Likewise, if arbitration, mediation, or another form of alternative dispute resolution will put an end to the matter more effectively and quickly, we will recommend it.