Food and beverage is a brand-first, regulation-heavy business, and the legal work has to match. MC Law represents manufacturers, beverage makers, restaurant groups, and food-tech startups on the trademarks, packaging, supply contracts, and FDA compliance that decide whether a product reaches shelves and stays there. Our attorneys started as engineers, so we read your formulations, production data, and compliance systems without needing them dumbed down first.
Protecting Your Brand
In this category, the brand often is the business. We build trademark portfolios that cover your names, logos, and product lines, and we protect the packaging and trade dress that make customers reach for your bottle instead of the one beside it. When copycats and counterfeiters show up, we go after them. We also draft and manage licensing deals so your brand can expand into new products and markets without losing control of how it gets used.
FDA and Labeling Compliance
Few industries are policed as closely as this one. We advise on FDA food safety rules, ingredient and nutrition labeling, health and marketing claims, and the state-by-state requirements that trip up companies expanding into new regions. We also help with import and export obligations and recall readiness, so when something goes wrong you already have a plan instead of scrambling. The goal is to keep your claims defensible and your products legal to sell.
Supply Chain and Commercial Deals
Your product depends on co-packers, ingredient suppliers, distributors, and retailers, and each relationship rides on a contract. We draft and negotiate manufacturing, supply, and distribution agreements that set quality standards, allocate risk, and spell out what happens when shipments slip or ingredients run short. We also handle the broader commercial transactions, from private-label arrangements to retailer terms, so growth does not create exposure you did not see coming.