Food and beverage

Food and beverage label and packaging reviews ensure compliance with regulations, accurate ingredient listings, providing clear instructions, and helps avoid the use of misleading and deceptive statements about the performance of the products.

We assist clients with their food and beverage product ingredient claims by ensuring accuracy, compliance with regulations, and avoiding deceptive practices or misleading information.

We review, draft and negotiate ingredient development and production agreements, ensuring compliance, protecting intellectual property, and addressing terms to prevent disputes and protect our clients interests.

Supplier and distribution agreements define terms, ensure reliable supply chains, manage risks, prevent disputes, and establish clear business relationships.

We assist clients by drafting and negotiating agreements to ensure clear terms, protect intellectual property rights, and comply with advertising codes and the Australian Consumer Law.

Ensures marketing materials comply with consumer laws and advertising codes, avoids copyright or trade mark infringement issues, prevents misleading claims, and protects the company’s reputation.

Seeking professional intellectual property advice protects brand identity, ensures legal use, prevents infringement risks, and helps to secure valuable business assets.

Consumer law advice ensures compliance with relevant legislation, prevents misleading practices, avoids legal disputes, and protects both consumers and a business’ goodwill and reputation.

We advise clients who have been accused of infringing another party’s intellectual property rights including responding to letters of demand, negotiations and preparing court actions in respect of injunctions or infringement claims.

Merchandising and advertising agreements are used to define how products are promoted and sold, detailing marketing strategies, responsibilities, compensation, and brand representation to maximise product visibility and boost sales.

Including:

• terms of use
• privacy policy
• shipping policies
• returns policies
• warranties

Careful risk assessment in a company’s supply chain involves assessing contract terms, compliance with relevant legislation, vendor reliability, intellectual property issues, and potential strategies to mitigate disruptions and legal disputes effectively.

Obtaining legal advice for trade promotions and consumer competitions ensures compliance with laws, prevents fraud, avoids misleading practices, and addresses liability issues, safeguarding the business from legal disputes and penalties, and harmful reputational risks.

We aim to assist our clients to resolve disputes promptly and amicably without the need for litigation. However, when litigation cannot be avoided, we assist clients with practical and cost-effective legal solutions.