International franchising
As franchise businesses mature, or as
companies look to expand overseas, a significant number of
businesses use franchising as their preferred model for
international growth and expansion.
Our franchising team are all highly ranked in
the International Who's Who Legal Law Business Research and by
Chambers Global. This makes Field Fisher Waterhouse the only
firm outside of North America to have four lawyers ranked in the
top 20 international franchise lawyers in the world.
To guide those businesses considering
expanding outside of the UK and Europe, we have summarised a number
of the key legal and commercial considerations for a number of the
main international markets. To find out more, please see our
country pages below.
A number of international markets have franchise disclosure and
registration requirements. To help highlight these, we have
provided a summary of these requirements.
Allied to Field Fisher Waterhouse's
international experience, we have developed relationships over many
years with leading franchise specialists in key international
markets around the world. Where our clients require specialist
franchise counsel we have a network of leading specialists with
whom we regularly work to help guide clients through the local
regimes and key practical, operational and commercial
considerations.