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
