Retail & Consumer Products

As market and economic conditions evolve, even the most well-established brands and their investors must adapt business strategies to meet new and complex challenges. Latham advises leading consumer and retail brands to:

• Protect their business: Latham has counseled industry boards and senior managers through hundreds of crises and internal investigations and in bet-the-company litigation. We work with clients to maintain market share and manage relationships with regulators and other industry bodies.
• Grow and thrive: Many of the largest and most influential consumer and retail brands trust Latham to advise on their most sophisticated and mission-critical corporate transactions, capital raisings, and strategic investments.
• Innovate: Recognizing the ever-changing, technology-driven landscape, Latham regularly helps retail and consumer product clients navigate the vanguard of their markets to grow their businesses and succeed while protecting their brand equity.

With a detailed understanding of the industry, Latham’s lawyers help companies manage the complexities of their retail and consumer products business. The firm has counseled retail and consumer products clients in some of the industry’s leading market transactions and controversies, including:

• Leonard Green & Partners LP on various retail-focused transactions, including, but not limited to:
  • Topshop/ Topman
  • Savers, Inc.
  • David’s Bridal
  • BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc.
  • Jo-Ann Stores

• Advent International in its US$1.9 billion takeover bid of Douglas Holding, a German retailer – one of the largest public-to-private transactions in Germany and a standout deal in the European market
• Manchester United plc, a professional soccer team and merchandiser in its IPO on the NYSE. This was the very first foreign private issuer to go public as an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act
• Tilly’s, Inc. in its IPO on the NYSE. The Tilly’s IPO was one of the first retail IPOs of 2012 as well as one of the first IPOs that went effective following adoption of the JOBS Act. Daily Journal listed the Tilly’s IPO as one of the “Top 10 California IPOs of 2012”
• INTERMIX, a multi-brand specialty retailer of luxury and contemporary women’s apparel and accessories on its acquisition by Gap Inc.
• Reebok International, Ltd., a global footwear and sports apparel company, in connection with a global product recall
• Costco Wholesale Corporation, a wholesale club operator, and Safeway, Inc., a food and drug retailer, in intellectual property disputes. A Latham lawyer acted as liaison counsel on behalf of 270 defendants by the US District Court for the Central District of California in the largest multidistrict litigation patent case in history in which summary judgment of invalidity was obtained on 46 asserted claims
• Nintendo Co., Ltd., a Japanese video game company, and its partners in the reorganization of international intellectual property rights relating to Pokémon, the global videogame, animé and toy phenomenon
• Sony Online Entertainment, an online gaming company that offers Playstation 3 games, on the consumer privacy and marketing rules associated with its international launch of multi-player online games directed at children

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