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Toni & Guy – we have advised this leading international hairdressing business on the full range of franchise related issues from structuring through to its domestic and international roll outs.  We have also provided strategic dispute resolution and dispute avoidance advice.

We have advised The Dwyer Group Inc subsidiaries, Air Serv and Mr Electric, on their European roll outs, involving strategic advice on structuring, development targets and market penetration.

We were legal advisers to Myhome International plc on its admission to AIM from PLUS with a market capitalisation of approximately £30 million.  In addition to advising this international franchisor on corporate issues, we also advised extensively on its franchise structure and documentation. We have also advised Myhome on its 2007 purchase of the ChipsAway franchise for £20 million.

We have advised Curves, the ladies only gym concept and one time fastest growing franchise in the world, on its European and Middle East roll out.
LighterLife instructed us to update their licensing model to a level that was more appropriate to their successful and rapidly expanding weight-management business. We redrafted their licensing documentation to ensure that their rights were strengthened and they were afforded the necessary protection needed by franchisors. Following this work they then asked us to provide them with a "one-stop shop" of legal services for their franchise business. This has allowed us to provide them with advice on franchise dispute resolution, trade mark filings, advertising law issues, employment law and regulatory issues.
We have advised this well-known stop smoking clinic on various aspects in relation to the expansion of it’s operations in the UK. 
The Original Poster Company Limited is a well known distributor of greetings card distribution to retailers and we have advised on various aspects in relation to the expansion of it’s operations in the UK. 
We represented MRI Networks, a NYSE quoted corporation, on its sale of the global intellectual property rights of MRI outside of the USA.  This deal involved the sale of the international business to UK corporations and the transfer of all of the world wide master agreements.  This involved detailed and complex negotiations and disclosure and registration programmes in some 22 countries around the globe from Australia, China, South America to Europe. This was, we believe, the first example of an MFBO on an international scale – a pioneering transaction which we developed.