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Sotos
LLP has not only successfully resolved client issues, but in many
cases has set industry precedents.
Representative projects:
• Helped numerous successful restaurant concepts assemble
professional management teams and develop the necessary strategies
to grow into nationally-recognized franchise brands
• Settled Canada's first certified franchise
class action
• Negotiated the purchase and sale of franchise systems
• Guided national franchisee associations during the bankruptcy
of their franchisors and negotiated favourable franchise arrangements
with new franchisors
• Represented Canadian franchisors in structuring area development
and master licenses overseas
• Represented Canadian master franchisees in acquiring foreign
franchise rights
• Negotiated on behalf of a franchisee association to create
a comprehensive new relationship with a multi-billion dollar franchisor
• Negotiated the conversion of a corporate network
into a franchise system
• Assisted troubled franchise
chains in successfully restructuring leasing portfolios
• Obtained the first Canadian injunction stopping a large-scale
royalty strike by franchisees of an international franchisor, ensuring
the system’s continuing success
• Prepared
Disclosure Documents and Statements of Material Change for many
leading Canadian and international franchisors
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Provided expert evidence in court proceedings with respect to franchise
matters
• Structured distributorship arrangements
which avoid being qualified as a "franchise" under the
Ontario franchise legislation
• Retained by the
African Development Bank as part of a team to advise on franchising
in Africa following extensive fieldwork
• Won a precedent-setting
injunction against multi-billion dollar auto parts manufacturer
preventing termination of 40 supply contracts before trial
• Assisted in the organization of a network of Centres of
Excellence funded by the Federal Government to coordinate arthritis
research
• Assisted a biotech company obtain special
warrant funding and a listing on a Canadian Exchange
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Oversaw the successful litigation of a hotly contested, multi-jurisdictional
shareholder dispute |
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