Services

Distribution issues affect businesses on a daily basis. We work with clients to help them ask the right questions and get the right answers as they take their products to market. Examples of our representation in this area are the following:

• Counseling firms on compliance with state laws limiting termination or changes in dealerships, distributorships, franchises or sales agencies, including system-wide termination of dealerships in connection with market withdrawal.
• Drafting dealership, distributorship and sales agency agreements.
• Counseling firms on compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in their appointment and management of international distributors and agents.
• Counseling firms on compliance with foreign law in the appointment and termination of distributors and agents for international sales.
• Representing manufacturers in dealer and sales agency termination litigation.