The Franchise & Business Lawyers

Both franchise and business law are wide ranging areas and it is impossible to outline all exact areas covered. Our clients' industries are diverse and varied they include telcos, landlords, furniture retailers, women's clothing and accessories retailers/franchisors, childrens sport coaching, photo booth operators/franchisors, mining service industry franchisees, gym owners, pizza store owners, coffee vending franchisees and the list goes on.

From a Franchisor's viewpoint I recognised the importance of producing compliant Franchise Documents that can be easily interpreted by candidates and key conditions are in plain English.

Establishing the last Franchise we used the firm "The Franchise & Business Lawyers" and found Elizabeth's precise franchise document requirements/knowledge and practical experience extremely helpful especially dealing with abnormal items and pointing out any unfair provisions.Elizabeth was available for us on a day to day basis when we needed assistance and importantly returned phone calls on the same day.

Our client was a franchisee and had set up a new franchised business. However, after 18 months of operation the business was losing a lot of money each month. The franchisor had helped to hire and train most of the franchisee's staff, had approved of the business location, had provided training to the franchisee and so on.

When acting for a new franchisor the franchising lawyer will be engaged to give advice about franchising, structuring, business matters, leasing and other legal matters. The franchising lawyer will also prepare the franchising suite of documents which will be used by the franchisor in granting franchises to franchisees and will govern the relationship moving forward.

Many of the obligations of franchisors under the "Old Code" remain however, they have in many instances been extended or added to. The changes are so wide that this Code review has resulted in a new Code and not just a revised or "re-jigged" Code. 2.2 However, in many cases the disclosure requirements have been extended, for example, in the past we needed only to name associates of the franchisor.