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We represent:
- Hotel and motel owners, operators and investors
- Entertainment complexes
- Distributors and manufacturers of alocoholic beverages
- Casino and gaming operators
- Airlines
- Restaurants
- Sports venues
- Theme parks
Wide-ranging industry experience. Fulbright attorneys have assisted in hotel, leisure and entertainment complex transactions across the United States and throughout the world. We have represented hospitality, theme park and restaurant clients in commercial disputes, defended them against personal injury claims and represented many facets of the industry in regulatory matters.
Our experienced attorneys in the leisure group are supported by lawyers throughout the firm's 50-plus practice areas, such as corporate, mergers and acquisitions, securities, public finance, intellectual property, litigation, arbitration/ADR, labor and employment, real estate and tax.
Leisure and Entertainment: Transactions/Operations
Fulbright & Jaworski's corporate, commercial, labor and tax lawyers have vast experience in representing clients in the leisure, hospitality, gaming and entertainment industries worldwide. We advise clients in matters related to:
Financing, Business Structures and Agreements
- Acquiring, disposing of, and investing in businesses
- Structuring investments, including tax planning
- Formation, maintenance, and structuring of corporations, partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability companies
- Partnership, joint venture and shareholders' agreements
- Real estate transactions
- Construction, design and project management
- Public and private financings of businesses and assets
- Securities matters
- Public-private joint ventures for tourism projects
- Tax-exempt bonds
Permits, Concessions and Regulatory Compliance
- Alcohol licenses and permits
- Gaming licenses and concessions, including casinos and pari-mutuel betting
- Introducing special legislation and tax regimes for the alcohol and gaming industries
- Alcohol importing and regulatory matters
Operations
- Management, technical services and licensing agreement
- Security and crisis management counseling
- Bids to public and private entities for catering and related services
- Distribution and distributors' trade associations
- Labor matters, including immigration issues
- Environmental matters
- Tax matters
Leisure and Entertainment: Dispute Resolution
Fulbright & Jaworski takes a proactive approach to dispute resolution in order to reduce the need for, and the cost of, litigation. Our leisure industry clients have been well served over the years by our emphasis on resolving disputes quickly.
Proven litigators. Fulbright & Jaworski is consistently ranked among the top litigation firms in the United States. Our trial practice represents U.S. and international clients in virtually every area of the law.
Our dispute resolution experience in the leisure, hospitality, gaming and entertainment industries includes:
- Claims involving employees, guests and tenants
- Personal injury and other tort claims, including those involving alcohol consumption
- Claims involving the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Dispute resolution among business owners
- Resolving security issues involving crimes against guests and tenants
- Class action litigation from asbestos liability matters to securities fraud
- Tax disputes
- Environmental matters
- Alcohol licenses and permits
- Energy surcharge regulatory matters including alleged deceptive trade practices
- Disputes over intellectual property
- Joint venture and partnership disputes
Arbitration/ADR. Fulbright attorneys are experienced practitioners of U.S. and international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. We have been recognized as:
- One of the five highly recommended national law firms for dispute resolution in the Global Counsel Dispute Resolution Handbook
- One of only 17 firms in the world named as the "Arbitration Elite" by The American Lawyer
Our attorneys have practiced in all the major international seats of arbitration around the world and are familiar with their rules.
Leisure and Entertainment: Licensing, Intellectual Property and Trade
Fulbright & Jaworski has a broad range of experience in franchising and licensing arrangements across numerous industries, including restaurants and hotels.
A leader in trademark law. Fulbright is consistently ranked among the top firms in trademark matters and has one of the country's largest intellectual property practice groups. The firm's trademark work has included many familiar names in the restaurant/food and beverage industries.
Professional organization positions that Fulbright attorneys have held or currently hold include:
- President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Chairman of the Federal Trademark Legislation Committee and the International Trademark Committee
- Chair of the International Trademark Association Issues and Policies Committee
- Editor, The Franchise Trademark Handbook
- Editor, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
Antitrust. We help our clients structure distribution systems, marketing programs, licensing and other business arrangements to limit their exposure to antitrust claims such as:
- Price discrimination
- Resale price maintenance
- Discriminatory allowances
- Tying and bundling products
- Exclusive dealing
- Territorial and customer limitations
- Refusals to deal
If disputes arise, our lawyers have extensive experience in representing plaintiffs and defendants antitrust and trade litigation and dispute resolution.
Trade practices/advertising matters. Fulbright has extensive experience representing clients in matters involving:
- Claims of unfair or deceptive practices barred by the FTC Act or "Little FTC Acts" of various states
- Unfair or false advertising claims before the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division
- The Lanham Act
- Individual and class action cases
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