Practice Areas & Industries: Carlton Fields, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Perhaps nothing typifies America's healthy, aggressive entrepreneurial spirit more than the continuing strong growth of franchised business relationships, product distribution systems, and dealership networks. What began as a simple and ingenious way to produce and sell products - food, cars, brushes, seeds, gadgets, hardware, and everything else imaginable - has generated millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in development. As these businesses have expanded exponentially, so has a vast body of complex state and federal government regulations governing distribution and distributor relationships, trade practices, trademarks, trade secret protection, antitrust, licensing, disclosures, non-renewals, terminations, and a host of others. The attorneys in our Franchise and Distribution Practice are committed to helping our clients develop and protect their businesses. We are experienced in working with both franchisers and franchisees through every stage of their formation, development, expansion, and maintenance. Our goal is to help our clients avoid pitfalls, formulate cutting edge, successful strategies, and be all together free to do what they do best - business.