Franchise, Distribution & Direct Sales
Merging business acumen with legal and industry-specific knowledge to unleash the full potential of your business
Capabilities at a glance
- As one of the few full-service law firms in this space comprising highly decorated legal and business-centric attorneys, our Franchise, Distribution & Direct Sales Practice Group represents many of the world’s most important brands.
- Serving as your strategic business partners and providing comprehensive legal support, we take care of your legal needs seamlessly through an ever-present business worldview.
- Leveraging a worldwide network of top franchise, distribution and direct sales practitioners in every jurisdiction, we ensure you have the best advice wherever your business is looking to operate.
Business-focused legal advice from experienced attorneys
Franchising, distribution and direct sales is our whole world. We also make sure we understand your world. To accomplish this, we thoughtfully and strategically create teams composed of attorneys with incredible business and industry-specific experience as well as attorneys with unmatched legal knowledge. We speak your language – because it’s only by fully understanding the nuances of your business that we can help you achieve your goals. We further leverage our experience and knowledge to put processes and infrastructures in place to help you make the best, most cost-efficient business decisions so you can keep reaching as many new customers as possible. Our business model lets us provide genuine value and helps our clients advance to the next level, whether that involves M&A or other avenues to expand your sales.
Broad industry knowledge across franchising, distribution and direct sales
We represent a wide range of franchisors, manufacturers, distributors and direct sales companies, and this experience has given our team unique insights into how to give your business the competitive advantage you need. Our attorneys have the agility that comes from representing some of the largest franchisors and direct sales companies in the world alongside exciting new ventures that are just establishing their systems. Wherever you are in your growth, we help you comply with the vast and changing regulatory landscapes in which your businesses operate, we help you resolve disputes as they come up and we help you tackle your most pressing business issues—whether related to labor and employment, tax, intellectual property, product liability, privacy and data protection, contracting, M&A or any other area.
