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“FFW is '...a key adviser to our business and it is reasonable to say has played an important part in our global development'.”

Steve Mills, former CEO, MRI Worldwide Network Limited

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.

We have since also advised ChipsAway International Limited on its purchase, by way of an MFBO, of the global intellectual property rights of ChipsAway outside of USA and Canada from ChipsAway Inc.

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.