Working as part of Foley’s national practices or cross-disciplinary industry teams, our Detroit attorneys address a wide range of legal disciplines in a variety of industries. Our clients include many significant companies in the automotive, e-business, health care, finance, retail, transportation, and private equity and venture capital industries, among others. We also have a strong heritage of representing manufacturers and distributors in Detroit as well as globally in China, India, Japan, Korea, and Europe.
Our Detroit office is particularly strong in the following areas:
Automotive: Our Automotive Industry Team is based in Detroit and comprises attorneys from a variety of legal disciplines who devote their professional practice to serving the needs of our clients in the automotive industry, both in the United States and abroad.
Bankruptcy: Our attorneys regularly represent parties in all aspects of bankruptcy law, and they work integrally with the firm's other highly regarded practices, including our industry-focused practices, to form multidisciplinary restructuring teams with a focus on your specific industry.
Business Law: Foley’s corporate and business practice includes attorneys skilled in counseling public and private companies, investment banks, private equity and venture capital funds, and lenders in a broad range of capital-raising and acquisitive transactions.
Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Our multi-skilled litigation practice includes litigators experienced in handling and (when necessary) trying complex and high-stakes business disputes, including disputes involving the Uniform Commercial Code, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, class actions, health law, business torts, antitrust, misappropriation of trade secrets, public law, international disputes, shareholder disputes, and securities issues. We also focus on handling supply chain disputes, including cases requiring injunctions.
Distressed Real Estate: Our attorneys have extensive experience in resolving distressed assets and large-scale, distressed sponsor issues, including the handling of work-outs and restructurings (both in and out of bankruptcy).
Environmental: We offer a broad range of services covering all environmental media (air, water, and land). These services include environmental litigation, transactional and due diligence assistance on the purchase, remediation and redevelopment of contaminated properties, and extensive experience and counseling on rulemaking, permitting, and compliance and enforcement issues before local, state, and federal authorities.
Gaming: We provide comprehensive services to the gaming industry, with broad geographic reach and deep local experience. Our clients include casinos, Native-American-owned casinos, video lottery terminal facilities, horseracing tracks, Internet gambling sites, Web-based gaming developers, and sweepstakes and lottery operators.
Government Contracts: Our Government Procurement attorneys have more than 50 years of experience addressing municipal, state, and federal contract matters, including negotiating contracts and subcontracts, contesting and defending government contract award decisions through bid protest actions, submitting, negotiating, and litigating contract disputes and claims, developing compliance programs, and providing in-house, customized training on government procurement topics. We can also assist you in obtaining statutory or regulatory relief with the assistance of our Public Policy colleagues in Washington, D.C.
Health Care: Our attorneys are integral members of our health care industry practice — one that is consistently ranked a top health care practice in the United States by Chambers USA.
Intellectual Property: IP is a principal strength of our law firm. With more than 200 attorneys firm-wide and a core group in our Detroit office, our IP practice delivers an innovative life cycle of IP services to obtain, protect, and add value to your IP assets. We also provide product clearance opinions, conduct licensing programs, and handle the IP due diligence for corporate transactions. And if you must litigate to enforce or defend your IP rights, you can call upon our experienced IP trial attorneys, who have handled hundreds of patent and IP litigation matters.
Internal Investigations and Compliance: Our attorneys defend clients and conduct internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, anti-kickbacks, and bribery. Our Detroit office also handles investigations in response to administrative and Inspector General investigations in addition to internal investigations for a broad range of enforcement and compliance issues.
Labor and Employment: Our nationally recognized attorneys counsel and defend clients in Michigan and across the country on a vast array of issues related to labor and employment, including class action prevention and defense, wage and hour collective action compliance and defense, employment discrimination litigation, non-competition and trade secrets matters, collective bargaining, labor relations disputes, and labor arbitrations. Our attorneys also represent clients before federal and state administrative agencies, including the EEOC, NLRB, OFCCP, OSHA, and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and focus on in assisting companies in developing effective problem prevention and dispute resolution strategies.
Securities Enforcement and Litigation: Securities enforcement and litigation is another Foley strength. Attorneys in our Detroit office handle 10b-5 class actions and other securities litigation, SEC enforcement and investigations, broker-dealer arbitrations, and internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.