Whether you’re expanding in the UK or internationally, acquiring, selling or wishing to terminate an arrangement, we provide clear and pragmatic advice tailored to your business needs.
Our award-winning franchise team has been providing comprehensive legal advice and support to franchisors and licensors, franchisees and licensees for over 25 years. We are long standing,active members of the British Franchise Association and committed to promoting ethical franchising.
How we help
- Providing strategic commercial advice on the best expansion model to suit your business needs.
- Preparing franchise and licence agreements, master franchise agreements and area development agreements. For international agreements we engage with trusted local lawyers in our network to ensure compliance with local laws.
- Ongoing advice for the growth and management of the network, including recruitment and onboarding, advising on property matters, employment issues, renewals, resales, terminations and exit plans.
- For our franchise and licensee clients – we review and advise on agreements, renewal and exit options, business sales and acquisitions.
- Protecting and maximising the value of brands and intellectual property, including structuring and drafting manufacture and supply agreements, and negotiating the acquisition of licence rights.
- Understanding regulatory compliance requirements and developing appropriate procedures.
Our experience includes:
- Advising Papa Johns on its referencing of recently acquired corporate stores and franchise operations in the UK.
- Advising SUR Coffee Group Ltd on its acquisition of development rights from Black Sheep Coffee to open up a further eleven Black Sheep Coffee shops in Scotland.
- Advising COOK on its strategic store expansion programme across the Channel Islands through both concessions and retail stores owned by the Channel Islands Co-op.
- Advising the Monkey Music franchisor, a premium pre-school music brand, on the resales of its franchisees’ businesses.
- Assisting Burger Boi Franchise Ltd in preparing a template multi-unit development agreement to assist it in its expansion and recruitment strategy of attracting well capitalised franchisees.
- Advising on a complex licencing agreement between a fast food brand and a shipping company to offer the brand’s food on a number of vessels, as part of the client’s strategic focus on the growth of the brand through alternative licensing models, moving away from traditional bricks and mortar.
