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Provided by Matthew Vance
Retail & Consumer
Hotels, Hospitality & Leisure
Education
Matthew is an Associate in Bird & Bird's London Commercial Group, working primarily in the Retail & Consumer, Hospitality and International Education sectors.
Matthew's focus is on helping brand owners and various brand stakeholders develop new relationships with each other and successfully manage existing ones. He has advised on a wide range of commercial models including franchising, distribution, licensing, outsourcing, joint venture and management agreements, as well as a number of bespoke models that combine different elements of these.
Matthew enjoys not just the excitement of new deals, but also advising clients on day-to-day operational matters drawing on the sector knowledge he has gained.
Highlights of his work include: helping well known F&B and product retail brands expand into new international territories; advising a large UK property owner and a Spanish hotel brand on their London hotel portfolios; and working with more than fifteen British schools on their international expansion projects, mainly in China and the Middle East.
As a trainee, he sat in the Dispute Resolution group during the first wave of Covid-19 and helped advise a number of Retail and Hospitality clients on handling a variety of difficult issues that arose with partners. He has taken this experience forward as a Commercial Associate, both in terms of advising clients during the initial stages of a dispute, but also explaining the practical consequences of different contractual decisions faced by clients during the drafting process.
He completed a secondment to the IP team of a large international bank, which helped him better understand the practical realities that many brands face in terms of protecting their brand and taking enforcement actions against infringers.
Before training as a solicitor, Matthew worked abroad in the USA, France and Turkey, gaining an international perspective that helps him diffuse misunderstandings that can often all too easily arise in cross-border transactions.
Studied:
BPP Law School, GDL and LPC
University of Chicago, BA in Humanities and MA in Social Sciences
Admissions:
Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2020
Provided by Chambers
Matthew Vance is highlighted for his experience in assisting household-name clients from the hotel sector with a variety of commercial matters, particularly franchising and hotel management agreements.
Matthew Vance is an associate at Bird & Bird. He has experience working with high-profile clients on international franchising and licensing agreements.
Provided by Chambers
Matthew is pragmatic, approachable and the kind of lawyer that hotel owners and operators would want to have on their team.
Matthew is very knowledgeable and very quick to offer sound advice on complex hotel agreements and matters.
Matthew is, and has always been, a superb representative for Bird & Bird. He has always delivered an excellent level of advice in a timely and accurate manner.
Matthew is pragmatic, approachable and the kind of lawyer that hotel owners and operators would want to have on their team.
Matthew is very knowledgeable and very quick to offer sound advice on complex hotel agreements and matters.
Matthew is, and has always been, a superb representative for Bird & Bird. He has always delivered an excellent level of advice in a timely and accurate manner.
