Supply Chain Integrity

Building resilience through strategic solutions

As stable supply chains become central to maintaining a competitive advantage, the consequences of disruptions are not only an operational issue – they also include complex regulatory, compliance, and litigation risks. To navigate this evolving landscape, organizations must embrace strategies that are agile, resilient, and sustainable.

Leveraging lawyers with experience across areas including global trade, disputes, compliance, and contracting, DLA Piper combines enforcement insights with practical, business-aligned strategies to help companies mitigate risk and protect enterprise value. Our cross-functional team advises clients across a variety of industries, including automotive, manufacturing, industrials, retail, agriculture, consumer goods, transportation, and life sciences.

We pressure-test supply chain health and deliver actionable solutions to mitigate liabilities and maximize opportunities, considering interconnected legal, regulatory, and commercial perspectives.

Contractual and commercial relationships

Companies are under increasing pressure to manage legal and operational risks stemming from complex contractual, commercial, and cross‑border supply chain relationships. Challenges such as supply chain disruptions, opaque risk exposure in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and evolving global tax rules can quickly erode value. We provide insights to help organizations navigate these issues as they relate to M&A supply chain due diligence, negotiate resilient and risk‑balanced supplier and partner agreements, and design efficient tax and transfer pricing strategies.

Regulatory compliance and risk management

As regulatory scrutiny intensifies globally, companies face growing exposure when re-aligning supply chains, integrating acquired operations, launching new products, or onboarding third parties – each of which can trigger complex compliance obligations and costly disruptions. Our insights can help clients proactively manage these risks relating to supply chain regulatory requirements; conduct diligence on suppliers, distributors, and customers; integrate newly acquired supply chains into established compliance programs; and implement sustainability tracking and reporting frameworks to meet evolving global disclosure requirements.

Litigation and advocacy

As scrutiny over supply chain integrity and sustainability claims intensifies, companies face escalating litigation and enforcement risk. Our thought leadership helps clients better understand greenwashing allegations, disputes trends arising from supply chain contract breaches, and risk relating to regulator inquiries, subpoenas, raids, seizure, and investigation involving human rights, environmental laws, duty calculations, and counterfeit goods.

DLA Piper is able to give nuanced advice that appreciates different risk tolerances and compliance resources.

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