Awards & Rankings 10.19.23
Pillsbury’s Marketing, Distribution & Franchising team provides boutique-type focus, knowledge and attention backed by the resources of a full-service law firm offering comprehensive service to clients across industries.
Pillsbury lawyers advise clients regarding all aspects of marketing, distribution and franchising. We provide guidance on distributor, dealer and franchise networks, systems, operations and agreements; sales agents, direct sales and internet-related issues; and compliance with antitrust, franchise and other trade regulation laws.
Our Marketing, Distribution & Franchising team includes business lawyers with extensive experience advising on transactions, business operations and management, as well as trial lawyers with an impressive record of successfully asserting and defending claims and handling class actions involving distributors, dealers and franchisees. Our lawyers appear regularly in federal and state trial and appellate courts; arbitration and mediation proceedings; and matters before the Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, International Trade Commission and other government agencies. We have also prosecuted and defended advertising-related challenges before the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
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We advise on marketing, distribution, and franchising issues for clients in virtually every economic sector, from restaurants to gas stations. Our lawyers help clients structure transactions, leverage IP, address sourcing concerns, resolve corporate and securities matters, minimize legal costs and achieve their overall business goals. Our Marketing, Distribution & Franchising team also helps clients with:
Handled Financial Engines Inc.’s $560 million acquisition of The Mutual Fund Store, one of the U.S.’s fastest-growing investment advisory businesses. Acquisition doubled client size, adding physical presence to online presence.
Represented Jollibee Foods Corporation, a publicly-traded multinational restaurant operator of more than ten brands with over 5,500 stores worldwide, in its multi-stage acquisition of Smashburger, a U.S. better burger chain, for over $200 million.
Negotiated condominium marketing agreements, pre-opening services agreements and technical services agreements for hotel and resort projects.
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