Your lease can be one of the most important aspects of your business and you may not even realise it. More often than not a business' premises will fundamentally impact upon its success.  The viability of many retail stores depends upon foot traffic past the store front, some retails stores don't rely so much on the foot traffic but more so on surrounding businesses attracting potential customers to the area, distribution companies may need to be centrally located to ensure t...

CASE STUDY 2 In a recent matter, our franchisee client was suffering great financial hardship in the operation of its franchised business.  It had been suffering this loss for some time and it could not turn the franchised business around to stop the financial haemorrhaging. The franchisee had for many months been trying to negotiate with the franchisor to have it released from the franchise agreement.  However the franchisee owed the franchisor alot of money for ongoing franch...

We were recently involved in a case where a franchisee had left a franchise system believing they had been released from the franchise agreement by the franchisor.  This was not the case.  The franchisor was pursuing them legally for franchise fees they would have paid to the end of the term of the franchise agreement plus other costs they had incurred. When the franchisee called us they were understandably upset.  They had been to another lawyer who, not being a franchise ...