Beer, Wine and Spirits
Your brewery, winery or distillery faces fierce competition in a highly regulated marketplace. Our attorneys help you rise with a variety of legal services, from corporate and tax to regulatory compliance and employment law. Let’s toast to our future success together.
Summary
The beer, wine and spirits industry in California has experienced unprecedented growth over the past two decades, with legal issues both unique and complex. Procopio’s Beer, Wine, and Spirits attorneys provide you a complete range of legal services to help producers, distributors, and sellers of alcoholic beverages to comply with the various tax, regulatory and corporate issues specific to them. With a particular focus on supporting the success of California’s craft brewers, Procopio brings together experienced attorneys from various practice groups, including tax, international law, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, corporate, construction and litigation in order to attack complicated issues with experience. We advise clients at all stages of growth, from initial business formation to mergers and acquisitions/business succession.
In addition to the wealth of disciplines that this group draws from, Procopio is uniquely positioned to help clients who wish to cross borders. These seasoned attorneys regularly assist domestic and foreign clients, especially for unique issues that arise when a client is expanding into or out of the United States.
- Corporate formation/restructuring
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Restaurant, hotel and bar legal services
- Intellectual property issues, including patents, trademarks (including trademark litigation) and copyrights
- Import, export and distribution agreements
- Labor and employment
- Real estate and land use
- Purchase and sale of facilities, including wineries
- Litigation
- Taxation
- All other issues for beer, wine and spirits clients
- Represent Minerva, the largest craft brewer in Mexico, in a large distribution arrangement in the U.S. with Pabst
- Represent largest investor in Peligroso, a premium tequila maker, regarding various corporate and management issues
- General counsel services for Grain to Green (Pizza Port Brewing Company) since 2009, advising on commercial transactions (distribution, vendor agreements), licensing, regulatory, labor and employment, intellectual property, real estate and other matters
- General counsel services for Lost Abbey Brewing since 2011, advising on commercial transactions (distribution, vendor agreements), licensing, regulatory, labor and employment, intellectual property, real estate and other matters
- General counsel services for Port Brewing since 2011, advising on commercial transactions (distribution, vendor agreements), licensing, regulatory, labor and employment, intellectual property, real estate and other matters
- Advise Karl Strauss Brewing on real estate and other issues
- Advise Stumblefoot Brewing on intellectual property, labor and employment issues
- General counsel services for Folktale Winery since 2016, advising on commercial transactions (distribution, vendor agreements), licensing, regulatory, labor and employment, intellectual property, real estate and other matters including import-export transactions with an Australian wine company
- General counsel services for Cult of 8 wine group since 2016, advising on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions (distribution, vendor agreements), licensing, regulatory, labor and employment, intellectual property, real estate and other matters
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Special Counsel & Risk Management Analyst • Palo Alto, CA
