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Ballard Spahr's Franchise and Distribution Group focuses on the needs of franchise and distribution system companies to deliver complete solutions, integrating transactional creativity with regulatory experience, intellectual property protection, and litigation prosecution and management.

By organizing a practice team around our clients' business and legal needs, Ballard Spahr is well suited to cover the full range of issues facing our franchise and distribution industry clients in today's rapidly evolving business environment. Our clients include large private and public multi-national companies, growing and start-up franchise and distribution systems, multi-unit developers and operators, private investors and venture capital companies contemplating franchise and distribution system investment opportunities, and lending institutions engaged in lending and other financial activities.

Ballard Spahr lawyers have been engaged in a wide variety of franchise and distribution system-related matters, including:

  • Franchise Law Counseling and Compliance
  • Litigation
  • Distribution and Sales Agency Counseling
  • Mergers/Acquisitions
  • Securities
  • Financial Lending
  • Intellectual Property
  • Real Estate/Land Use/Retail Development