Bio
Jane is a Commercial Partner.
Jane advises franchisors, franchisees, and franchisee associations on all aspects of franchise-related matters including drafting franchise agreements, area development agreements, master licence agreements and associated documents.
She works with franchise businesses throughout the whole franchise sector including domiciliary care, children’s theatre schools, quick service restaurants, coffee shops, fitness and health clubs and services such as oven cleaning, lawn treatment, pest control and locksmiths.
Jane deals with numerous sales and purchases of franchise businesses and franchise networks to support clients with achieving their objectives – whether that is growth of franchise business ownerships for multiband franchisees, or single unit acquisition or the sale of franchise business interest to realise equity value.
Jane has experience of providing quality legal advice to both franchisors and franchisees on all non-contentious issues related to franchising.
She has more than 30 years of experience working in the franchise sector.
Examples of Jane’s work include:
- Drafting Area Development Agreements for leading children stage school franchise in Poland and Dubai.
- Setting up franchise business resale process for franchisor clients in different sectors to include domiciliary care, fitness lawncare and domestic cleaning.
- Advising on sale of 29 separate, corporate-owned branch businesses to be operated post-sale as franchise businesses to including suite of documents for the asset sales and associated franchise agreements granted to the buyers.
- Drafting franchise agreements for businesses in different sectors to include networking groups, healthcare clinics and quick service restaurants.
- Advising on the purchase and sale of franchise businesses.