Wilson Elser

Manufacturers in Asia face serious legal risks as they pursue business interests in the United States. These risks may include product liability lawsuits, conflicts with business partners, consumer class actions and other unwelcome matters that can cost significant money and harm a company’s reputation.

For more than three decades, Wilson Elser has been defending and advising large and expanding Asian manufacturers and the insurers that protect them. Our dedicated Asia practice includes attorneys who have lived in the region for many years. We understand our clients’ customs and languages, and visit regularly to maintain strong relationships. Our attorneys provide clients with clear recommendations and respond swiftly to questions. Our team members are well known, frequently lecturing and writing about insurance topics in Asia.

Some of our attorneys are engineers, and all understand complex manufacturing issues and the sectors in which our clients compete. We are very familiar with product designs in the marketplace and are attentive to the designs advocated by our clients’ adversaries. With this knowledge we can defend clients more successfully, spot how their current practices may lead to future lawsuits, and provide practical ideas for reducing risks.

Wilson Elser’s Asia team includes Admiralty and Marine attorneys who protect the value of our clients’ investments by defending marine hull, marine cargo, marine recovery, and subrogation claims. The team also includes attorneys with extensive experience in defending household products manufacturers in fire-related claims.

This core team of Asia specialists puts Wilson Elser’s collective legal intelligence and business experience to work for each client’s specific needs. With nearly 800 attorneys in our firm’s 24 offices across the U.S., we are able to defend client interests vigorously, whether they face a product liability suit, commercial litigation or an intellectual property (IP) dispute with a competitor.

 At Wilson Elser, we believe that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is a foundational value, critical to the success of our firm and central to the integrity and vitality of the legal field. Bringing together people of different backgrounds and beliefs, people with diverse perspectives, fosters the innovative and creative thinking that enhances our response to the needs of our clients. Wilson Elser’s commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment, hiring and training as well as the organizations to which we belong and the programs we sponsor.

We believe in creating a work environment free of barriers and bias, where individual outlooks and talents are respected and valued. Our firm’s policy is to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, disability, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the law. 

Beyond legal compliance, our firm strives to mirror the rich diversity of the communities in which we practice, to respect the diversity of our clients and their workforce and to employ best practices to identify, select, hire, retain and promote qualified individuals without boundaries or limitations, other than those imposed by their own choices and capabilities. This allows us to better represent our clients in today’s diverse, multicultural society. 

Wilson Elser is also committed to promoting diversity through the selection of vendors. We actively seek certified minority- and women-owned businesses and provide them with the opportunity to partner with us to provide services to our firm and our clients.