With decades of experience in convenience retailing, we guide companies to the future. Our experience in convenience retailing includes providing legal advice to clients on:
- Franchise and state relationship laws, including the development of models, preparation of FDDs and ancillary contracts, supplier and vendor contracts and management, defaults, terminations, non-renewals, and dispute resolution
- Pricing and antitrust counseling and defense
- Advertising, marketing, rewards, and loyalty programs
- Defense of class actions, consumer protection, and unfair trade practices claims
- Premises liability defense
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Real estate
- Payment card issues, electronic payment platforms, and POS systems
- Transition and incorporation of EV charging
Representative Matters
- Advised a client on analysis and development of franchise business models.
- Drafted and updated convenience retailing franchise agreements.
- Counseled clients on pricing and antitrust issues associated with convenience retailing.
- Developed loyalty programs for convenience retailing.
- Reviewed and advised clients on convenience retailing advertising to consumers.
- Defended franchisee claims against a convenience retailing franchisor related to a point-of-sale system.
- Defended class actions on consumer protection claims associated with convenience retailing advertising.
- Represent leading brand in retail fueling convenience stores on acquisitions, development, dispositions of real estate, retail leasing in urban areas and ancillary real estate issues.
- Represent oil change servicer on real estate matters and environmental issues and/or use of hazardous substances.
- Team includes former real estate manager for a convenience store chain that had 1,200 stores across seven Midwestern states.
