Alcohol Beverage

Broad Industry Experience Informs Our Counsel

Whether you are a manufacturer, importer, wholesale distributor, real estate investment trust or retail vendor in the U.S. or abroad, you need experienced counsel that can guide you efficiently through this unique, complex and heavily regulated industry.

With an understanding of your business and its challenges, we strive to anticipate and recognize potential issues before they become problems.
Our Alcohol Beverage Team serves the alcohol beverage and hospitality industries on all matters related to the production, distribution and sale of licensed beverages, including the marketing and advertising of alcohol beverages, taxation, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, and when necessary, dispute resolution.


Benefit From An Insiders’ Perspective

With experience as industry "insiders," we can leverage our relationships for your gain. Our Alcohol Beverage Team includes lawyers, government consultants and other professionals with decades of wisdom and relationships gained through previous regulatory careers.

Relationships and Experience at All Tiers of Government

To serve the alcohol beverage industry, we make it our business to know not just the local, state and federal alcohol beverage laws and regulations throughout the U.S., but also the administrators and government personnel who enforce those laws.

Holland & Knight's size and scope means you have access to a team of lawyers who regularly work with the U.S. Treasury's Alcohol Beverage Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) and other executive branch agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Bureau of Customs & Border Protection, and the Department of Agriculture, as well as key committees of Congress.

Should you require representation or legislative advocacy at the state or federal levels, or need to identify and resolve legal and regulatory issues on a local level, our Alcohol Beverage Team has the essential contacts and know-how to address these industry issues.


Comprehensive Guidance for Alcohol Beverage Industry Clients

Our Alcohol Beverage Team advises on a full spectrum of legal issues related to alcohol beverage law for our domestic and international manufacturing clients, distributors and retail clients, including: