Franchising

The UK franchising group is well established and highly regarded in their field. Our unique sector focus enables us to attract work from clients in key franchise sectors such as restaurants and hotels and leisure but also in emerging sectors such as education and healthcare. We are leaders in retail, combining the firm's sector-leading retail expertise with the firm's strong franchise expertise has enabled us to attract a broad range of new retail clients.

The Dentons global franchise group has a total of nine ranked lawyers based in the USA, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. We can advise clients not only on their franchise agreements but also on the use of franchising as part of their international expansion strategy. We act not only for established franchisors whose entire business model is based on franchising but also for companies who use franchising strategically to deal with unique business opportunities.

We advise our clients on domestic and global franchising, franchise disputes, IP protection, franchise joint ventures, data privacy and IP. These are the key areas of franchise law.

Dentons is largest law firm in the world with 188 locations in 77 countries around the world. We are well known for taking franchise businesses international into the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and China. We offer the full range of legal services from Data Privacy to Commercial Contracts, Competition Law, Joint Ventures and Franchise Disputes and Compliance.