Providing businesses with franchising advice requires lawyers with expertise in many different disciplines: corporate, tax, real estate, intellectual property and, often, litigation, just to name a few. GCI GLOBAL has strengths in all of these areas and has brought all of those skills to bear in the development of its franchising practice. Traditionally focused on advising franchisors, Our Law Firm has assisted with the establishment, operation, expansion, acquisition and disposition of franchises worldwide. Our dual expertise in India and international franchising and licensing, as well as capital formation and corporate finance transactions, makes the attorneys of our legal team uniquely qualified to handle complex financing and acquisition transactions involving franchisors, distribution companies and emerging growth businesses.

 

GCI GLOBAL has represented franchisors in various industry sectors including hotels, restaurant, retail financial, corporate training, educational and other business, household and personal services.  Our lawyers have also helped franchisors prepare master franchise agreements and disclosure documents and we continue to assist them in their efforts to comply with the requirements of provincial legislation relating to franchises. Finally, our Law firm has used its expertise to assist franchisors in protecting, enhancing and exploiting their valuable portfolios of trade-marks and other proprietary worldwide.

 

On the litigation side, GCI GLOBAL has both enforced rights of franchisors against former franchisees and infringers, as well as defended franchisors in actions brought by franchisees and former franchisees, on a variety of matters, including, in at least one instance, assisting a franchisor in successfully resisting an application for relief from forfeiture brought by a former franchisee who was found not to be truthfully reporting all income.