Manufacturing, logistics and transportation
Innovation is essential to remain competitive in a highly competitive environment
Meanwhile, manufacturing, logistics, and transportation companies must reduce the costs and delays inherent in production, importing, exporting and transportation. BCF helps businesses meet these challenges. Our multidisciplinary team has in-depth knowledge of every aspect of intermodal transportation as well as smart factories and “Industry 4.0”.
BCF’s technology team helps clients launch or pursue their shift to automation, robotisation, 3D printing or smart processing, assess the quality of their products or technology integration, and make their manufacturing and production monitoring activities more flexible. Our international business law team helps our clients conquer new markets and address customs issues. Our patent agents advise them on how to protect and market their innovations. Our labour law and business immigration teams counsel on how to plan and manage a skilled workforce. BCF’s professionals tailor loan agreements, financing structures, and partnership contracts to match our clients’ business strategies, regardless of whether they involve mergers and acquisitions, investment capital, joint ventures, strategic alliances, or other types of association. We make our clients’ expansion happen, both locally and internationally.
Sub-industries
Sub-industries
BCF provides regulatory, tax, financing, commercial, intellectual property, environmental, and dispute resolution advice to clients operating in the aeronautics and aerospace sector.
Our intellectual property team devises and helps implements strategies to protect designs. Our tax and financial services teams structure and negotiate a variety of financing plans with both private and public lenders and investors. Our commercial lawyers represent clients in their strategic acquisitions and divestitures while our regulatory lawyers ensure that all transactions are carried out in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. BCF’s litigation and dispute resolution team, with its strong class action expertise, defends and protects our clients’ rights before the courts and other dispute resolution forums.
BCF’s multidisciplinary team provides strategic legal and business advice to assist clients from every sector and industry to distribute their goods and services effectively and efficiently.
We draw upon our understanding of regulatory landscapes, supply chain management, and the insurance industry, as well as on our legal knowledge and expertise, to guide clients through a sometimes elaborate maze of national and international regulations. We advise on the best approaches to adopt and help negotiate and put in place a variety of commercial agreements, such as joint ventures and strategic alliances. Our regulatory and tax lawyers ensure that our clients’ goods cross borders easily and with the least possible duties. Our litigation and dispute resolution team advises on how to avoid disputes and intervenes rapidly to solve them should they arise.
BCF represents a wide array of manufacturing clients, from startups to fortune 500 companies.
Our practical, strategic, and business-savvy advice on matters such as competition strategy, licensing, distribution arrangements, intellectual property protection, transfer pricing, and labour relations helps our clients navigate the challenges that mark the manufacturing sector. We also provide counsel on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and represent clients before administrative tribunals, investigatory bodies and courts. We advise on the legal implications of process improvement and help negotiate and implement the various outsourcing and sub-contracting agreements our clients need in order to manufacture quality products efficiently.
From public procurement to safety and logistics, BCF’s team advises and represents a variety of clients active in the public transportation sector on a number of matters.
Our commercial and regulatory lawyers help clients prepare tendering strategies and draft the necessary documents. They also draft a variety of commercial agreements such as leasing, joint-venture, strategic alliance, and marketing and distribution agreements. Our employment and labour law team helps negotiate and mediate labour relations while our litigation and dispute resolution team ensures conflicts are either avoided or resolved rapidly to the benefit of our clients. As a result of BCF Imagine, our startup programme, BCF also has the privilege of representing clients that are developing innovative technologies which they are marketing to the public transportation sector so it can operate more efficiently and sustainably.
BCF‘s multidisciplinary team represents a variety of clients operating in the rail transportation sector including manufacturers, suppliers, lessors, financiers, railway operators, regulatory bodies, and government authorities.
Our financial services team develops and negotiates financing strategies. Our regulatory team ensures that projects are conducted in compliance with the laws and that any product or service marketed to members of the rail industry meets with required safety norms and standards. We help prepare tenders for clients bidding on publicly sponsored rail projects. We advise and represent clients on labour relations matters and represent them before the courts on commercial matters, including class actions.
