L'Oréal Retains Restructuring Advisers as US Talc Claims Pile Up

**Source:** Jumeili (聚美丽) · **Date:** 2026-10-17 · **Category:** Legal / Ingredients *原文：疑用错原料？欧莱雅陷“世纪大坑”* L'Oréal's US subsidiary has hired law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges as restructuring counsel and investment bank Ducera Partners to advise on mass litigation from people who say talc-containing products made them ill, per foreign reports cited by Jumeili and dated October 5. The move follows Johnson & Johnson and Avon into the same territory and suggests L'Oréal is modelling a liability-separation structure — the playbook for ring-fencing mass tort claims away from the operating business. Jumeili notes roughly 760 talc suits pending against the group in the United States. For Chinese suppliers the significance is upstream as much as legal. Talc has a long, opaque supply chain, and the cases turn on traceability and on whether asbestos was tested for at each stage. Expect buyers to demand mineral source declarations, third-party fibre testing and substitution plans — corn starch, synthetics — for pressed powders and body products. Detail --- L'Oréal US subsidiary Weil, Gotshal & Manges Ducera Partners ~760 talc suits in the US Ring-fencing / liability separation [Read the origina

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