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  1. Hospitality and leisure

    We pride ourselves on breaking down complex legal issues into concise, commercial advice for our clients.

    We have a wealth of experience advising businesses across the hospitality sector, including casual dining operators and restaurants, hotels, leisure organisations and suppliers. A selection of clients we have worked with includes: Aspria, Bluebell Railway, Immersive Gamebox, Kuoni, Metropolitan Gaming, New Dawns Pubs, Papa Johns, PAUL, Pepe’s Piri Piri, Pizza Hut (UK), Real English Drinks Group and The Big Table Group.

    Always available and on hand when we need support. Requests are dealt with quickly and all members of the team offer great guidance and feedback. It feels like Stevens & Bolton are an integral part of our business, akin to having in-house lawyers.

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    We regularly provide advice on the following:

    • Business set up, structure and openings
    • National and international roll out and expansion plans
    • Construction projects and fit out
    • Site portfolio management, including lease negotiations and disputes, concession agreements, exiting and disposals
    • Solvent/insolvent restructuring and insolvency, including Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs)
    • Financing solutions and investment, including consumer credit advice and private equity
    • Staffing and management issues
    • Multi channel retailing, technology, apps and customer experience
    • Supply chain issues and reducing risk
    • Procurement and outsourcing
    • Brand promotion and endorsement
    • Brand monitoring/protection, trademarks, design rights and copyright
    • Compliance and regulatory, including data protection and GDPR
    • Consumer issues, handling customer complaints and dispute resolution

    Get in touch with a member of our team if you would like to know how we can work with you. Our experts will provide you with strategic, practical advice to help your hospitality business succeed.

     

    "A friendly and commercially-minded team." THE LEGAL 500
  2. Our Experience

    • Advising the founders on their exit from Red Mist Holdings, the parent company of award-winning pub group Red Mist Leisure, and the launch of their new enterprise, New Dawn Pubs (having previously advised the founders on a number of transactions involving takeovers and sales of companies and pubs).
    • Providing Papa Johns with advice on a wide range of franchising, commercial, brand, sponsorship, dispute, employment and immigration matters.
    • Advising Pizza Hut Restaurants on devising and implementing a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) with its landlords and other creditors during the Covid-19 pandemic.
    • Acting for Metropolitan Gaming on its acquisition of the business and assets of the Park Lane Casino (located in the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane) in a pre-packaged administration of the casino’s former owner.
    • Advising a luxury hotel group on employment matters including employment contracts, agency workers, settlement agreements and redundancies.
    • Advising an international budget hotel brand on employment matters including settlement agreements and shareholder advice.
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