Representative Matters
- Clear brands and prosecute trademark applications for restaurants and wineries to ensure brand integrity
- Represent restaurant group in sponsorship agreement with NHL team
- Represent purchaser of hundred site restaurant chain
- Represent restaurant group in acquisition financing term loan and line of credit facility
- Represent a prominent celebrity restaurant in a wage and hour class action, prosecution of trademark violations, and general employment matters
- Serve as outside general counsel in IP, leasing, finance, licensing for branded consumer products and employment matters for restaurant chain
- Drafted promotional contest rules and assisted in structuring a legally-compliant promotional contest for a restaurant chain.
- Negotiate lease agreements for single unit and multiunit restaurants, as well as resolve lease disputes
- Advise investors in restaurants and serve as finance counsel for restaurant operators
- Resolve several disputes between co-owners of restaurants, including dissolution of corporations and LLCs, and settling real estate and business operations issues
- Successfully resolved dispute between minority shareholder/member and officer of two corporations and a limited liability company through action for dissolution that resulted in mediated multi-million dollar buy-out agreement
- Successfully resolved action by former shareholder of corporation claiming interest in real property acquired by shareholders for benefit of the corporation, but held in their individual names. Obtained agreement by former shareholder to deed and release any interest in real property to the corporation
- Represented an international restaurant company in lease disputes across the U.S.
- Represented Mandarin Holdings in obtaining a senior secured credit facility and in acquisition of the Leeann Chin restaurant group
- Represented Stix Holdings in acquisition of Pick Up Stix restaurants
- Represented Mandarin Holdings, Leeann Chin and Stix Holdings in term note and revolving credit facility refinancing
- Defended a restaurant against a copyright claim related to images used by the restaurant
- Represented a café in Venice, CA to form an LLC to operate its business
