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Products Law
We help businesses around the world to protect and advance their brands through our world-class skills in product litigation, liability, safety, and compliance.
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Our global Products Law practice is internationally renowned for its work in product litigation, liability, safety, and compliance for universally recognized brands in every industry sector. For decades, our practice has worked collaboratively to provide clients with a one-stop-shop for all their products’ needs. Our global team, consisting of over 100 lawyers spread across 30 countries, covers all product sectors. Our clients receive the most comprehensive advice through our team’s extensive experience with technical and scientific issues in the most complex and highly regulated industries. The team is highly recognized in the product liability space, known especially for its mastery of litigation within regulatory frameworks.
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Hogan Lovells has the expertise and resources to manage complex matters.
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Hogan Lovells is a pre-eminent team.
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The team always thinks a couple of steps ahead, and they are also really commercial and practical.
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Hogan Lovells has consistently made efforts to understand our business. The firm helps us craft a case strategy in line with our business goals and values.
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Representative experience
Advising a German DAX 30 company on a global internal product compliance investigation in more than 50 countries including product safety issues and criminal law charges.
Advising a major Spanish food manufacturer on a claim related to an alleged contamination of food products.
Advising major companies selling alcoholic beverages on the conditions under which such beverages can be marketed, promoted, and advertised in France.
Assisting a leading manufacturer of orthopaedic products and devices with pre-contentious and contentious claims for damages allegedly suffered as a result of injuries caused by metal-on-metal hip prostheses.
Assisting an international biopharmaceutical company in the defense of a product liability claim relating to a biomedical research conducted in France.
Conducting product liability audits for leading international consumer goods manufacturers and advising on systems to minimize potential regulatory and litigation risks.
Defending a global certification company against liability claims resulting from allegedly inappropriate certification of breast implant manufacturer P.I.P.
Defending a leading pharmaceutical company in more than 27 countries after the voluntary product withdrawal.
Defending a pharmaceutical company in multidistrict litigation involving claims that a drug caused pathological impulse control disorders, navigating the investigation, & aggressively advocating for our client.
Defending an internationally leading medical device company against damage claims from patients after the voluntary recall of a vaccine.
National counsel to Brazilian mining and metals company in litigation concerning materials imported into the United States.
Representing Boeing on the Barajas 2008 Spanair air crash.
Representing a global product manufacturer in a putative nationwide class action alleging various fraud- and warranty-based claims relating to “refresh rate” of LED High-Definition televisions.
Representing a leading Japanese manufacturer in litigations arising from fatal accidents further to the utilization of mini-excavators, utility vehicles, or riding mowers.
Representing a leading manufacturer of consumer products regarding a recall in more than 70 countries, including authority notifications and criminal law defense strategies.
Representing a manufacturer of white goods in relation to a multifatality house fire in the UK in which our client’s product was the alleged cause of the fire.
Representing one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers in a multimillion Euro product liability supply chain lawsuit against a tier-one supplier.
Securing a very favorable MDL class action settlement for an automotive OEM targeted by state attorneys general, a federal government investigation, and more than 54 class actions.
Resources
Awards and recognitions
Dispute Resolution, Band 1
Chambers Global
2025
Litigation: General Commercial (Maryland), Band 1
Chambers USA
2025
UK Product Liability (Defendant), Band 1
Chambers UK
2025
Litigation Europe-wide, Band 2
Chambers Europe
2025
Litigation Germany, Band 2
Chambers Europe
2025
Litigation France (Elite), Band 3
Chambers Europe
2025
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