Automotive Legal Partner
Our legal advisors bring extensive, hands-on experience in the automotive industry, offering tailored guidance that blends in-depth knowledge of regulatory frameworks with practical solutions. This empowers automotive suppliers worldwide to navigate complex legal landscapes effectively, ensuring that their production, sourcing, and launches remain uninterrupted. By leveraging our expertise, clients gain strategic insights that not only mitigate risks but also enhance operational efficiency, ultimately fostering innovation and growth in a highly competitive market.
Services
In the automotive industry, clients require a range of legal services to support their operational effectiveness and foster strong relationships with customers and suppliers. These services include drafting and negotiating contracts that streamline supply chain interactions, enhance collaboration with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, and establish joint ventures. Legal assistance is also essential for managing tooling and equipment leases, developing liability waivers, and facilitating clear communication channels among stakeholders. Additionally, clients benefit from crafting risk management strategies that ensure smooth business operations. Engaging in cross-border transactions and navigating international trade considerations are also vital for automotive companies looking to expand their market presence and enhance their competitive edge.
Inside Automotive Counsel
Global Automotive Law Group delivers quick, pragmatic legal support from attorneys who have worked inside automotive suppliers, acting as your external legal department so you can focus on operations, customers, and growth.
Services
NDAs
Drafting and negotiating NDAs tailored to automotive development cycles, production timelines, and multi-tier supplier relationships—protecting confidential design data, testing results, and process know-how across borders.
Development Agreements
Structuring vehicle and component development contracts between OEMs and Tier 1/2 suppliers, covering engineering milestones, intellectual property ownership, change management, and cost allocation to align incentives and reduce disputes.
Purchase and Sales Agreements
We support you with your customers as well as with your suppliers. Negotiating framework and spot purchase agreements for automotive parts, tooling, and materials—balancing price, warranty, delivery schedules, and liability to support both long-term partnerships and flexibility.
Distressed Suppliers and Supplier Insolvencies
Advising on supply chain disruptions, distressed supplier situations, and insolvency proceedings in the automotive sector—helping you navigate continuity risk, avoid production interruptions and manage insolvency administrators, foster M&A and investor solutions and assist in continuation agreements to mitigate insolvency impacts.
Tooling Agreements
Drafting and managing tooling ownership, cost recovery, and protection agreements between OEMs and their supply base—clarifying title, depreciation schedules, and security interests to minimize disputes and preserve supply relationships.
Regulatory & Compliance Advice
Advising on automotive regulatory frameworks including type approval, emissions compliance, product liability, and emerging legal landscapes around connected and autonomous vehicles—keeping your operations aligned with global standards.
Our Attorneys
Ben Baur
Senior Partner & Founder
Ben Baur brings over 20 years of in-house and private practice experience at the intersection of automotive manufacturing and international commercial law. He has advised tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers across Europe, Asia, and North America on supply chain contracts, cross-border NDAs, product liability frameworks, and regulatory compliance. Admitted to the bar in Germany and the U.S.A. (Florida), Mr. Baur combines deep technical understanding of automotive production processes with sharp commercial instincts — delivering fast, practical legal solutions that keep operations moving.
They just understand our business. We get very useful, pragmatic, and easy to understand support to get the business going. They drastically reduce risk and find great results with suppliers but also customers and other business partners. Their support converts directly into savings or cost reductions. The legal advisors we used before were not useful, not pragmatic and were slowing down the business.
— Anthony Nakuri
Legal Insights
Explore concise updates on automotive supply chain law, risk, and regulation.
Pricing
We know that automotive industry players must be extremely cost sensitive. A senior partner with tremendous automotive experience can provide valuable advise very quickly which keeps the costs low but may help win a business, reduce or avoid a costly risk, or solve an expensive dispute. It is imperative nowadays to wisely use AI to drive results quickly but it is likewise important to direct and validate advise to fit your needs best. Whenever possible, we use AI or lower cost support to remain competitive in our pricing at all times.
We offer flexible engagement options for automotive suppliers, from one-time support, project management, to long-term assistance supporting your legal department or serving as your own external legal department.
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