Retail, hospitality & leisure

Maximising the value of your brand, products, services, property, and people.

As technology reshapes buying behaviour and intensifies competition, businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure need innovative approaches - which can bring challenges as well as opportunities.

Having the support of an experienced, multi-disciplinary legal team is crucial.

We understand the language our clients talk, and share their passion for building sustainable, profitable and market leading businesses.

From navigating the changing face of bricks-and-mortar stores and establishing robust legal frameworks for DTC ecommerce solutions, to leveraging the value of technology, ensuring robust and sophisticated global supply chain arrangements, protecting brands, products and technology solutions, and managing workforces and talent supply, the need for sector-specific legal expertise has never been greater.

Retail

Our expertise covers the entire spectrum of retail and consumer goods and services, from high street shops to luxury brands, and from online shopping to experiential retail. We can advise you on advertising and protecting your brand, property concerns for multi-site operations, managing and incentivising workforces, and commercial contracts (for logistics, consumer, technology, franchising, distribution, e-commerce and outsourcing). Our clients range from long established brands to start-ups, and include major department stores, clothing retailers and designer brands in the fashion, health, beauty and duty-free sectors.

Fashion

We’re known for our expertise in brand-led businesses, our deep industry knowledge and our innovative approach. Whether you’re a designer, fashion house, retailer, model, photographer or influencer, we’re a one-stop-shop for all your legal requirements. Our fashion team includes specialists in brand and design protection, licensing, franchising, commercial and technology contracts, data privacy compliance, employment and immigration law, and corporate transactions.

Hospitality & leisure

Our specialist hospitality and leisure team can provide you with holistic legal support related to corporate transactions, consumer and competition law, outsourcing (including hotel and restaurant management), commercial contracts, brand protection, data security, technology agreements, litigation, employment (including immigration issues), tax, and property. With a fully integrated, sector-focused approach, we are able to provide support across the full business lifecycle and for a wide range of hospitality and leisure clients from developers, investors, and lenders to hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities.

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