Hogan Lovells Helps NFL’s Patriots With Mask Donation (Corrected)

Hogan Lovells recently helped the Kraft Group and the NFL’s New England Patriots secure the necessary government approvals so the team could use its plane to pick up 1.3 million N95 masks from Shenzhen, China and deliver them to Massachusetts where protective gear is in demand in the fight against Covid-19.

A cross-practice team of the firm’s lawyers and staff worked around the clock for over a week to obtain the visas and paperwork needed to get the flight crew in and out of China for the delivery, as part of an effort to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.

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