Automotive

The automotive industry is undergoing significant change. Our automotive team is part of the wider strategic sector group, diversified industrials. These industrial firms are under increasing pressure to grow or dispose in a progressively tougher economic climate, which is being shaped by an exciting yet unfamiliar shift in technology.

Our dedicated automotive team spans across over 30 jurisdictions, and acts for some of the largest automotive organisations in the world.

Why Eversheds Sutherland?

• we represent one quarter of all diversified industrials in the Fortune500
• over 50% of all diversified industrials in the FTSE350
• more than 30 jurisdictions
• sixth in the merger and acquisition league tables (Mergermarket) for automotive globally

Our experience

With decades of experience advising the automotive industry, our automotive legal team has a deep understanding of the issues that you come across every day and is fully up to speed on the latest trends, technologies and changes in legislation. That’s why we continue to work with some of the biggest innovators in automotive history. 

• advising a global automotive manufacturer on behalf of itself and all its subsidiary companies and branches throughout EMEA, including an automotive company bank, in relation to the first generation outsourcing of its data center facility in a central European location
• advising the world's largest automotive safety supplier on the formation of its autonomous-driving joint venture with a major automotive manufacturer.

Contact our automotive team

If you would like any further information or need advice on automotive matters, then please do not hesitate to contact our legal team.