Who We Help
Franchise & Licensing
Org Law helps franchisors and licensors establish and grow their systems, from franchise setup and FDDs to operator agreements, brand protection, vendors, data, and organizational change.
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Legal support for
how you operate.
From a first franchise offering to an established network, your legal structure needs to connect the brand, operators, vendors, and customer relationships across the system.
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You are building or growing a system.
Relationships and standards need to work together.
The system is facing change.
Franchise setup and disclosure
Develop the franchise offering, FDD, franchise agreement, and registration and disclosure plan around your operating model and launch markets.
System, operator, and franchise-related agreements
Draft and negotiate agreements that define system rights, operating obligations, approvals, defaults, renewals, transfers, termination, and post-termination responsibilities.
Brand standards, intellectual property, and enforcement
Protect and license trademarks, confidential methods, content, digital assets, local marketing materials, and system standards, and address misuse or inconsistent application.
Vendor, purchasing, technology, and shared-service agreements
Negotiate approved-vendor, purchasing, logistics, payment, marketing, training, call-center, platform, point-of-sale, software, and other system-wide relationships.
Data, privacy, security, and digital channels
Address customer and location data, privacy notices, processing roles, security obligations, online sales, loyalty programs, platform integrations, incidents, and AI tools.
Corporate operations, executives, and workforce matters
Advise on executive agreements, authority, compensation processes, confidentiality, investigations, succession, separations, and workforce issues affecting corporate-owned operations.
Governance, authority, and multi-entity structures
Clarify board, officer, owner, committee, subsidiary, and location authority, approval thresholds, resolutions, conflicts, records, and corporate-owned location structures.
Acquisitions, refranchising, ownership changes, and combinations
Support acquisitions, roll-ups, refranchising, transfers, ownership changes, diligence, consents, purchase agreements, integration, and transition.
Franchise compliance and relationship issues
Address changes to the offering, system expansion, renewals, transfers, and difficult operator relationships, with specialist coordination where the matter requires it.