For more than 50 years, Phillips Lytle has been representing companies in the specialty metals and steel industry.
Contact UsFor more than 50 years, Phillips Lytle has been representing companies in the specialty metals and steel industry. Our involvement in the steel industry has been multifaceted, extending across a broad range of practice areas as it pertains to specialty metals and steel manufacturing industry.
Assisting clients with the specifics required for bidding on and winning government contracts and ensuring they are adhered to is just part of what our steel and specialty metals team works on. They offer helpful counsel on matters as in-depth as international trade agreements and will even step in to represent clients in military-related contracts. For example, Phillips Lytle represented a U.S. steel company in responding to audit findings by the Defense Contract Audit Agency of non-U.S. content of steel plate purchased by an Israeli defense contractor under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, including a request for waiver and future approvals of calculation methodology for non-U.S. scrap content.
A host of environmental issues can arise related to the steel industry. The steel manufacturing process, waste management and disposal, site remediation and crisis response are just some of the factors that must be considered by our clients in the steel and specialty metals industry.
Phillips Lytle’s attorneys who focus on the steel industry and specialty metals have years of experience offering legal counsel to our clients in the industry as it relates to environmental legal matters.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation was at one time the second-largest steel producer in America. Phillips Lytle began representing Bethlehem Steel’s Lackawanna, NY, plant in 1963. The scope of our work for Bethlehem Steel and its successors was vast and included:
Our Environmental Law Team also provided extensive legal representation, including:
Steel, specialty metals and specialty manufacturing companies turn to Phillips Lytle for services pertaining to the planning and execution for new buildings, production and manufacturing facilities and other related projects.
Steel production facilities and other related project often require a great deal of work to be done in order to secure the proper agreements, permitting and approvals to begin work. Our attorneys have a great deal of experience working with local and state agencies on site acquisition, project financing, tax credits and other incentives for such projects.
Our experience includes representation of clients seeking to construct new steel production facilities and other specialty facilities utilized in the steel industry. Some examples of our work includes:
Phillips Lytle also has expertise in representing steel manufacturers in intellectual property matters.
For example, we have represented the only producer of welded high carbon steel screens in the world with respect to their patent and intellectual property work. This company invented a process for welding high carbon steel wires to form very hard, abrasive, resistant screens that are used to size material in the aggregate, slag, coke, recycle and coal markets, as well as for security applications.
Our attorneys provide legal guidance for companies with historical or ongoing matters related to workplace accident claims, asbestos exposure claims and other chemical exposure claims that can arise with workers in the steel industry.
Our labor and employment attorneys also have extensive experience including employee benefits and executive compensation, employment litigation, workplace fraud and much more.
One such representation includes a leading manufacturer and distributor of building products for the industrial, infrastructure and residential markets.
Similar to the guidance we provide with regard to labor and employment, our attorneys are well versed in a wide range of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights issues that can be directly applied to our clients in the steel industry and specialty metals world.
We have represented a leading manufacturer and distributor of building products for the industrial, infrastructure and residential markets in the following areas:
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