Retail and E-Commerce
Retail is a licensing business wearing a merchandising business as a disguise, and a national rollout multiplies every obligation by the number of states.
How we Help
We support retailers and platforms from site to sale. Leasing and licensing of retail premises including mall and high street formats, revenue share structures and fit-out obligations. Store level licensing, shops and establishments registration, legal metrology, weights and measures, and the signage and fire approvals that hold up an opening. Consumer protection, including the e-commerce rules, dark pattern guidance, unfair trade practice exposure and product liability. Foreign investment conditions in single brand, multi brand and marketplace models, which is a structural question rather than a compliance one. Vendor, private label and franchise contracting. Advertising and promotion compliance. Enforcement and class complaints. For a rollout we work to the opening date, because a retailer’s legal risk and a retailer’s calendar are the same risk.
Store rollout licensing
Consumer & platform compliance
Foreign investment structuring
Experience
The matters below are described without identifying the client, unless the client has consented in writing to being named.
Matter lines to be added from the group's work in this area. No client name without written consent on file.
Matters are described at the level of transaction type, sector and outcome rather than identifying detail.
Further entries to be populated at launch.
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