Machinery, tools, hardware and components: from concept to market, you require timely legal advice that responds to your need to keep suppliers delivering, your plant producing and customers buying, and paying for, your products. We understand what those relationships are made of, and how to help them thrive.

Whether your challenge is to protect the value of your IP, procure material from customer-designated sources, limit liability or control channels to market, we can assist with advice, agreements and transactions for your situation. From non-disclosure to acquisition agreements, we know the sensitive deal points, targets and market references. We work with your management teams, business units, engineering and accounting professionals and our worldwide interconnected network of Northcroft firms with experts in various fields to optimize your resources and opportunities.

We can assist with:

• Protecting your trade secrets and intellectual property, licensing it and selling it
• Improving supply-chain reliability through performance guarantees and outsourcing strategies
• Weighing your legal risks on calls for tender, terms of sale and warranties
• Protecting your margins from supplier and customer pressure, changes in specifications and delays or refusals to take delivery of products
• Negotiating sales terms, including long term and special pricing agreements, supply and installation contracts, exclusivity, private label and OEM sales
• Negotiating process plant contracts for your manufacturing machinery and assembly lines
• Changing distribution channels while limiting transition costs and litigation risk
• Managing environmental issues

We understand your challenges and objectives to help you move ahead of your competition.