A substantial part of Weinberg Gonser’s practice is devoted to the representation of restaurants, hospitality groups, chefs, and other members of the hospitality industry. Our clients include single-unit brands, multi-unit restaurant and specialty retail concepts and hospitality groups.
We represent several celebrated restaurants and restaurant groups, and have introduced chefs, operators and financiers to each other to assist in our clients’ creation, expansion and success. Our lawyers have advised from “restaurant one” through the regional and national expansions for multiple restaurant concepts.
We structure financings and partnerships with appropriate entities and mechanisms for each stage of growth. Capital needs and structuring in the hospitality industry is key, as is an understanding of the real estate, HR, brand and other intellectual property issues.
We are well known in the industry for working with restaurateurs to handle corporate formation, partnerships, trademark, leasing, fund raising, expansions and securities offerings.
Services Include:
- Corporate formation and organization
- Management and governance
- Securities offerings and other complex equity and debt transactions (e.g., private placements, convertible notes, etc.)
- Commercial leases
- Trademark, copyright and trade secrets
- Non-traditional growth such as licensing in hotels and airports and management agreements
- Outside general counsel
- Creation and execution of exit strategy
Added Value Includes:
- In-depth knowledge of the economics and operations of running multi-unit consumer businesses
- Introductions to professionals and talent in our hospitality industry network
- Access to our relationships in the growth capital community
- Introductions to our network of investors, advisors and strategic partners