Avoiding Legal Landmines: Protecting Your Distillery Before Problems Hit

Description

Expertise Level: Standard

This session gives viewers a practical, real‑world understanding of how legal missteps ripple through a growing craft spirits business.

Using a distillery‑specific hypothetical using the company “Ripple Effect”, the presenters walk through how ownership disputes arise, how trademark conflicts escalate, how bottle‑design IP issues surface, and what litigation really costs in time, money, and operational disruption. Viewers learn how to prevent these problems through proper entity formation, documentation, capital‑raise structure, trademark strategy, insurance planning, and early legal review—skills essential for any distillery preparing to scale.

Lead by: MSK’s Daniel M. Hayes, Aaron M. Wais, and Blake Baron