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.
As Europe is our domestic market - and to
guide those businesses considering expanding into Europe, we have
summarised a number of the key legal and commercial considerations
for those jurisdictions. To find out more, please see our European franchising country pages.
For those businesses looking further afield,
Field Fisher Waterhouse’s franchise team has significant international franchising experience.
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. This includes two networks of
European franchise lawyers - the European Franchise Network and the European
Franchise Lawyers Network.