Franchising, licensing & distribution
Our Franchise & Licensing Group is widely regarded as
being the leading franchising practice in Europe.
We advise companies ranging from FTSE 100 companies to family
businesses on all aspects of this and, over the last 12 months, we
have advised on franchising in over 35 different countries.
We are founders and chair of the European franchise
Network (EfN) which gives us full coverage in all EU Member
States and other European countries such as Norway
and Turkey.
We offer both franchisors and master franchisees
fully-integrated solutions to assist them in establishing their
franchises in any of the EU Member States.
Our experience includes:
- drafting all necessary franchise documents
- European roll-out programmes
- disclosure documents
- negotiating master franchise and developer
agreements
- strategic advice and risk assessment of entry into EU
Member States
- franchise dispute resolution
- formulating and implementing an EU brand protection
strategy and trade mark registration
- identifying potential master franchisees and developers
in EU Member States
- localisation of concepts
- franchisee associations, buy-ins and buy-outs
- negotiating joint venture agreements and management
agreements
- master, regional, multiple and unit franchise
agreements
- franchise network acquisitions and sales
- real estate
- tax planning