Manufacturing and Industrials

The manufacturing and industrials sector is rapidly evolving to account for secular shifts in the economy. We can help you address key priorities such as digital transformation, supply chain alternations and geopolitical risk.

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We bring deep sector knowledge and legal excellence to support diversified industrial organizations worldwide. We understand the unique structures and drivers of manufacturing and industrial businesses, enabling us to deliver tailored, practical legal solutions.

Our teams are experienced in addressing key industry challenges such as digital transformation, international trade, evolving infrastructure, supply chain disruption, and regulatory compliance. We support clients across a wide range of sectors – including infrastructure, chemicals, heavy machinery, conglomerate, construction, engineering and materials – through mergers and acquisitions, financing, project development, and trading.

With a global, cross-border approach, we provide seamless legal services across corporate, commercial, regulatory, environmental, IP, cyber risk, and dispute resolution matters. We don’t just advise on the law – we help you achieve your business goals.

Chemicals and Industrial Products

Conglomerates

Construction and engineering

Our global perspective helps clients in chemicals and industrials navigate volatility and unlock growth. We help clients build successful projects and infrastructure that maximizes value. We leverage our relationships, often negotiating the optimum financing and project documents, and assist our clients through construction while helping to manage costs and minimize delay by providing highly experienced counsel to address and hopefully avoid any disputes that may arise. We also advise on the long-term financing and any onward sale of assets. With deep experience in vital projects across the globe, we have dedicated teams for every geography and sector, backed by world-class regulatory and dispute resolution capabilities.

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Supporting conglomerates from strategy to execution, across borders and sectors, we offer a wide range of services that can support you in all aspects of your operations. From corporate governance to regulatory compliance and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), we can help you develop value-driving board and committee structures, navigate complex regulatory requirements and take advantage of opportunities to expand and consolidate. Our teams can work with you to create strategies to manage and assess risk, mitigate crises and put in place transformational environmental, social and governance (ESG) approaches.

Our global team has an exceptional understanding of the construction and engineering industry, delivering expert contract risk analysis and dispute resolution strategies to keep complex projects on track. We can help you maximize the value of your projects and infrastructure developments, by supporting you in taking control of project and financing documents, and assisting you through all construction phases. By leveraging our internal resources and experience, our exceptional regulatory capabilities, and our relationships with you and other stakeholders, we can help you manage costs and delay, by addressing or avoiding disputes that arise in real time. We can also advise you on long-term financings and any onward sales of assets.

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Our capabilities at a glance

400

M&I Lawyers across the globe.

We advise 50+ of the world’s top manufacturing and industrials clients.

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

Hogan Lovells' knowledge was first-class, as was the application of this knowledge. The response time was great.

Construction: International Arbitration, Chambers UK 2025

Hogan Lovells' speed and negotiating attitude of putting the client's interests first make them seem more like legal partners than legal advisors.

Corporate/M&A: International, Chambers Japan 2025

The Hogan Lovells team has extensive experience in the industry and brings both legal expertise and industry knowledge to the prosecution.

Construction (including construction litigation), Legal 500 Germany 2025

Hogan Lovells have excellent legal knowledge and provide considered and commercially aware advice.

Chambers UK 2024 (client quote)

Key contacts

Emerson Holmes

Partner

Emerson Holmes

Partner

London

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Representative experience

Joint venture Baltic Power on the development and €4.4bn project financing of an offshore wind project in Poland. (EMEA)

SVEVIND Energy GmbH on the realization of a hydrogen project in Kazakhstan. (EMEA)

A major manufacturer of building materials in relation to claims regarding the supply of defective siding panels, involving our offices in Paris, London and Amsterdam. (EMEA)

Sojitz Corporation on its purchase from Helios Investment Partners of a 25% interest in the holding company of Axxela Limited, the largest private sector gas distributor in Nigeria. (EMEA)

ABB on a major contract for the transmission of wind power from the North Sea. (EMEA)

Advising DAP Products, Inc. in various corporate and commercial matters, including the negotiation of a warehousing arrangement in Mexico. (AMERICAS)

WSP Global on its US$1.31bn acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff from Balfour Beatty. (AMERICAS)

An Italian power generator in an American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration against an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor and suppliers over a catastrophic failure of a hydroelectric power plant project in Central America. (AMERICAS)

On a US$2.5bn EPC contract between Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and a consortium formed by Hyundai Engineering and Construction and the Chinese company Wison Engineering for the construction of Santa Ines Refinery in western Venezuela.(AMERICAS)

PPG Industries, Inc. on its US$1.05bn acquisition of the North American architectural coatings business of Akzo Nobel, N.V. (AMERICAS)

A Japanese contractor on the proposed acquisition of a Dutch company holding a portfolio of patents for the production of urea and ammonia. (APAC)

Advising Air Products and Chemicals on co-operation and supply agreements in China. (APAC)

Advising Corning Incorporated, a manufacturer of specialty glass and ceramics, on its manufacturing joint venture with a Chinese partner in China. (APAC)

An Asian contractor for a cement plant in Saudi Arabia in two London-seated International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitrations. (APAC)

Awards and recognitions

Tier 2, Construction: non-contentious

Legal 500 UK

2025

Tier 2, Construction: contentious

Legal 500 UK

2025

Band 3, Construction: International Arbitration

Chambers UK

2025

Band 2, Construction: non-contentious

Chambers UK

2025

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Manufacturing and Industrials

Manufacturing and Industrials

We bring deep sector knowledge and legal excellence to support diversified industrial organizations worldwide. We understand the unique structures and drivers of manufacturing and industrial businesses, enabling us to deliver tailored, practical legal solutions.

Our practices shaped by your issues

Chemicals and Industrial Products

Conglomerates

Construction and engineering

Our capabilities at a glance

M&I Lawyers across the globe.

We advise 50+ of the world’s top manufacturing and industrials clients.

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

Hogan Lovells' knowledge was first-class, as was the application of this knowledge. The response time was great.

Hogan Lovells' speed and negotiating attitude of putting the client's interests first make them seem more like legal partners than legal advisors.

The Hogan Lovells team has extensive experience in the industry and brings both legal expertise and industry knowledge to the prosecution.

Hogan Lovells have excellent legal knowledge and provide considered and commercially aware advice.

Key contacts

Representative experience

Awards and recognitions

Tier 2, Construction: non-contentious

Tier 2, Construction: contentious

Band 3, Construction: International Arbitration

Band 2, Construction: non-contentious

Other ways we can help you

Aerospace and Defense

Automotive and Mobility

Consumer

Energy

Financial Institutions

Insurance

Life Sciences and Health Care

Real Estate

Technology

Transportation and Logistics

International arbitration

Commercial litigation

Corporate and securities litigation

Global Regulatory

Mergers & Acquisitions

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