Survival in Today's Automotive Industry: How to Manage Relationships With Financially Distressed Companies
November 1, 2008
“Survival in Today’s Automotive Industry: How to Manage Relationships With Financially Distressed Companies,” summarizes key legal issues that must be managed in today’s automotive environment. As the White Paper demonstrates, if you are a customer or supplier in the automotive supply chain, there are concrete strategies that you should be employing now to protect your interests.
Attorneys in Foley’s Automotive Industry Team, including our Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice, represent a variety of clients in significant commercial and financial issues facing the automotive industry. These include troubled supplier and troubled customer matters, strategic supply chain contracting, financial and operational restructuring, pension, health care and other legacy liability issues, collective bargaining agreement issues, and sales and purchases of distressed assets. Our Automotive Industry Team brings together the collective specialties of our 1,000-lawyer firm through the industry-focused legal services that we provide to automotive clients.
Attorneys in Foley’s Automotive Industry Team, including our Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice, represent a variety of clients in significant commercial and financial issues facing the automotive industry. These include troubled supplier and troubled customer matters, strategic supply chain contracting, financial and operational restructuring, pension, health care and other legacy liability issues, collective bargaining agreement issues, and sales and purchases of distressed assets. Our Automotive Industry Team brings together the collective specialties of our 1,000-lawyer firm through the industry-focused legal services that we provide to automotive clients.
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