Frantz Ward’s Transportation team offers comprehensive support to transportation and logistics industry participants across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We manage all facets of surface transportation issues, including licensing, enforcement, accident claims, cargo loss, freight disputes, and federal preemption issues. Our attorneys represent a variety of motor carriers, rail carriers, and maritime carriers, as well as freight intermediaries like brokers, 3PLs, surface freight forwarders, ocean freight forwarders, and non-vessel operating common carriers. We also represent warehousing entities and shippers throughout the supply chain.
Our attorneys advise clients in a variety of areas, including:
- Local, state, and federal regulations, ensuring compliance and facilitating government interactions
- Transportation contracts, including shipping, warehousing, and multimodal arrangements
- Disputes related to liability, property damage, and catastrophic injury
- Independent contractor issues
- Accident response, including assisting with 24/7 emergency management for catastrophic accidents
- Employment matters including trade secret protection, and non-compete enforcementMergers and acquisitions
Our team is deeply engaged in the transportation industry through active participation in major associations such as the American Trucking Association and the National Tank Truck Carriers Association. At Frantz Ward, our extensive industry involvement and broad-based experience ensure that we provide exceptional service and strategic guidance to clients throughout the industry.
Representative Matters
- Represented a publicly held transportation company in a $150 million private placement of preferred stock and warrants to a private equity fund in a change of control transaction.
- Represented the special committee of the board of directors of a publicly held transportation company in a $56 million going private merger with a private equity fund.
- Represented various motor carriers, brokers, and shippers in the defense and prosecution of Carmack Amendment claims.
- National trial counsel throughout the United States for America’s largest family-owned and operated food and hospitality provider with a fleet of over 1,300 semi-trucks and box trucks operating in 38 states.
- National trial counsel for a national provider of commercial truck bodies in product liability and personal injury claims arising out of transportation accidents.
- Represented various motor carriers and transportation service providers in accident litigation.
