Retail
We represent retail sellers of a variety of products sold in stores throughout the world and via the Internet. Representative work includes:
- Representing a major coffee retailer in various acquisitions
- Representing a major brewery in the negotiation of a multi-year distribution agreement with Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and providing ongoing corporate and securities advice for over 20 years
- Providing ongoing employment advice and training for the largest online retailer of fine jewelry
- Successfully defending age discrimination claims brought against the owner of warehouse club-style stores in the United States and U.S. territories
- Representing national athletic shoe and apparel companies in numerous matters, including in connection with the purchases of assets, trademark and patent matters, and the liquidation of one company's corporate parent
- Assisting numerous clients with brand and marketing strategies, and the selection of effective trademarks; we have filed hundreds of state, federal and foreign trademark applications for our retail and e-commerce clients
- Preparing privacy policies, terms of use and various technology and services agreements to launch and maintain our clients' web sites and online initiatives
- Forming one of the best known high-end chocolatiers in America, and representing it in all aspects of its legal work, including real estate, corporate and commercial law
- Assisting our client in navigating all stages of the product development and manufacture of one of the world's most popular gaming consoles
- Assisting numerous technology companies through all phases of their growth and development, from start-up to venture financing to initial public offering
- Representing a leading technology company in leasing two mission critical data centers involving about 250,000 square feet
- Assisting a leading mobile entertainment, private-label search and online directory company with its licensing and web search agreements
- Preparing and negotiating a wide variety of agreements for one of the world's largest technology companies, including agreements covering the development, manufacture, procurement, distribution and licensing of hardware and software; we also assist our client with agreements relating to developing and providing online services
- Obtaining a temporary restraining order preventing a competitor from hiring a key executive of our client's games group
- Obtaining a preliminary injunction and other remedies to prevent a competitor's access to computer software and information management systems
- Defending a biotechnology company against claims of age and national origin discrimination and providing training and compliance programs for its leadership team
- Representing an international membership-based warehouse retailer in connection with its acquisition by a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company