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Restaurants

As restaurant companies become larger and their business practices more complex, they face legal challenges similar to any large-scale business enterprise.

Issues that our restaurant clients regularly face include raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, complicated financings and sale/leaseback transactions. Often, restaurants also need legal guidance in real estate, contract, regulatory, intellectual property and labor and employment matters.

Our attorneys who practice in the restaurant industry provide comprehensive counsel to restaurant companies and their owners, operators, managers, landlords, tenants, franchisors and lenders. Drawing upon our firm’s worldwide resources, we counsel the restaurant industry in such areas as:

  • Construction and development of restaurants
  • Franchising and brand issues
  • General corporate structuring and tax matters
  • Labor and employment matters
  • Lease, master lease and sale/leaseback transactions
  • Operational and management issues
  • Restructuring troubled operations for creditors, restaurant operators, owners, lenders and franchisors
  • Trademark and intellectual property matters