Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top In a recent Brainwaves event hosted by the Society of Automotive Analysts and Foley & Lardner LLP, titled “100 Days and Beyond: Presidential Policy Shifts Impacting...more
Foley is here to help you through all aspects of rethinking your long-term business strategies, investments, partnerships, and technology...more
2/20/2025
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Foley & Lardner will provide podcast commentary on key trends impacting the automotive supply industry as part of the firm’s participation in the MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers Annual Conference on November 12-13, 2024...more
11/12/2024
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A number of auto suppliers are reducing R&D and engineering budgets in response to cost pressures, according to a report in Crain’s Detroit.
Declining automotive plant capacity utilization in the U.S. is expected to be a...more
8/22/2024
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This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities -
Key Developments -
Foley & Lardner partner Vanessa Miller is quoted in the Law360...more
7/26/2023
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Analysis by Julie Dautermann, Competitive Intelligence Analyst -
This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. ...more
Analysis by Julie Dautermann, Competitive Intelligence Analyst -
This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities....more
6/1/2023
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The ever-resilient manufacturing sector has been bruised (and some might say battered) in recent years, through the pandemic, raw material shortages, increased labor costs, rising interest rates, and Russia’s war against...more
This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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Foley & Lardner LLP Partner Nicholas Ellis is quoted in the Automotive...more
1/25/2023
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Foley & Lardner launched a Supply Chain Disruption Series to help clients navigate a range...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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Although some feared a wave of pandemic-related Chapter 11 cases, the...more
1/12/2022
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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Foley & Lardner partners assessed the recent federal appeals court...more
12/21/2021
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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U.S. new light-vehicle sales in October are forecast to reach a SAAR...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key developments -
U.S. new light-vehicle sales in September are forecast to reach a...more
10/5/2021
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key developments -
LMC Automotive revised its global light vehicle forecast to 80 million...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key developments -
Aptiv estimates the auto industry could experience a third quarter...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key Developments -
New vehicle prices increased 6.4% in the last 12 months, representing...more
8/17/2021
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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U.S. new light vehicle sales in July fell to an estimated SAAR of 14.5...more
8/11/2021
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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Production downtime during July and August has been scheduled for five GM...more
7/20/2021
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
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The latest “Car Wars” report from BofA predicts automakers will launch...more
6/16/2021
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This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key Developments -
LMC Automotive increased its 2021 U.S. light vehicle sales forecast to 17...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key Developments -
Preliminary estimates for U.S. new light vehicle sales in April predict a...more
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Due to the semiconductor shortage, Stellantis will reduce shifts through the end of May at...more
4/28/2021
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Zero-Emission Vehicles
Foley & Lardner’s Weekly Automotive Report helps automotive suppliers inform their complex legal and operational decisions on market trends and regulatory matters, OEs and suppliers, connected/autonomous vehicles and mobility...more
3/24/2021
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