Service
International Business
Montgomery McCracken represents and counsels both domestic and foreign clients in matters around the world.
In particular, Montgomery McCracken has significant experience in representing or counseling foreign concerns with regard to matters within the United States and United States concerns abroad, with a focus on international trade, investment, intellectual property, maritime and transportation issues, litigation and arbitration.
Our clients range from large, multinational Fortune 50 companies to nascent or well-established privately held companies, regional manufacturers, financial institutions, investment funds, developers, and private investors, whether from major financial or manufacturing centers or the further reaches around the globe.
Business and Transactional Activities
We counsel clients based outside the United States in the manufacturing, software and services industries regarding a number of issues and opportunities in the U.S., including:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Business financing and investment
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Manufacturing and private label matters
- Marketing strategy and compliance
- Distribution issues, including dealer/distributor contracts and obligations
- Regulatory matters
- General corporate risk management
- Products liability and risk management issues
- Insurance and reinsurance coverage issues
- Intellectual property, including licensing and registrations
- Executive compensation issues
- Employee benefit programs and obligations
- Immigration
- Transportation and protection of ocean marine shipment
- Other admiralty and maritime matters
- Compliance and other white collar crime issues
- Anti-bribery and other anti-corruption matters
- Tax matters
We also represent various U.S.-based clients in their international/transnational activities including:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Business financing and investment
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Manufacturing and private label matters
- Marketing strategy and compliance
- Distribution issues, including dealer/distributor contracts and obligations
- Regulatory matters
- General corporate risk management
- Products liability and risk management issues
- Insurance and reinsurance coverage issues
- Intellectual property, including licensing and registrations
- Transportation and protection of ocean marine shipment
- Other admiralty and maritime matters
- Compliance and other white collar crime issues, including Foreign Corrupt Practice Act and similar requirements
Dispute Resolution – Litigation and Arbitration
Montgomery McCracken represents foreign companies and individuals in U.S. federal and state courts, as well as both U.S. and foreign concerns in arbitration, whether in the U.S. or elsewhere. Our experience spans many different industries and involves matters ranging from business, competition and trade practices disputes, to business torts, intellectual property, class actions, products liability, contracts, counterfeit products, manufacturing issues, transportation disputes, maritime disasters and pollution, and beyond.
Further, litigation in the United States is often only part of litigation or potential litigation in which the client is involved elsewhere or even globally. In these circumstances, we are called upon not only to handle the litigation here, but to advise the client and coordinate our efforts with those of the client and counsel abroad in the foreign proceedings.
Our experience in arbitrations is both in the United States and elsewhere, and under an array of arbitration rules or schemes. Beyond handling the arbitrations, we have experience in then enforcing the awards in the various jurisdictions.
At Montgomery McCracken, we provide comprehensive, high-quality service tailored to meet the needs of each client. We use our practical legal and business experience to acquire a clear understanding of each client’s goals and work closely with each client to realize those goals.