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Scale.
Legal infrastructure for restaurants, hotels, bars, and venues. Leases, liquor licenses, employment contracts, and multi-location expansion—handled so you can focus on the guest experience.
Plan Your Next Location →What Hospitality Operators Get
Contracts, licensing, compliance, employment, and business transactions—covered so you can focus on operations.
Business Formation & Transactions
Entity structuring, multi-location expansion, franchise agreements, and business acquisitions. We help you structure deals that protect your interests and position you for growth.
Services Include:
- • LLC and corporate formation
- • Multi-entity structuring for multiple locations
- • Franchise agreements and licensing
- • Business acquisition and asset purchase
- • Partnership and operating agreements
- • Vendor and supplier contract negotiation
How We Can Help:
A successful restaurant owner expanding to three new locations needed proper entity structuring to limit liability. We created separate LLCs for each location under a parent holding company, drafted operating agreements, and negotiated favorable lease terms—protecting personal assets while streamlining operations.
Learn more →Contracts & Licensing
Commercial leases, vendor agreements, liquor licensing, entertainment permits, and contract review. We ensure your agreements protect your business and comply with hospitality regulations.
Services Include:
- • Commercial lease negotiation and review
- • Liquor license applications and renewals
- • Entertainment and event permits
- • Food service and catering contracts
- • Vendor and supplier agreements
- • Sponsorship and partnership deals
How We Can Help:
When negotiating long-term commercial leases, we identify hidden costs in CAM charges, negotiate rent escalation caps, secure renewal options at favorable rates, and add force majeure protections—ensuring the lease terms protect your profitability over the full term.
Learn more →Employment & Compliance
Employment contracts, handbooks, wage and hour compliance, and workplace policies. We help you stay compliant while building a strong team.
Services Include:
- • Employment contracts and offer letters
- • Employee handbooks and policies
- • Independent contractor agreements
- • Wage and hour compliance review
- • Tip pooling and gratuity policies
- • Non-compete and confidentiality agreements
How We Can Help:
A growing restaurant group needed compliant employment policies across five locations. We drafted a comprehensive employee handbook covering wage and hour rules, tip pooling, anti-discrimination policies, and disciplinary procedures—creating consistency across all locations and reducing employment disputes.
Trademark & Brand Protection
Federal trademark registration, brand protection, and licensing for restaurant names, hotel brands, and entertainment venues. Protect your brand before expanding.
Services Include:
- • Federal trademark registration
- • Trademark clearance searches
- • Brand licensing and franchising
- • Cease and desist letters
- • Domain name disputes
- • Trade dress and logo protection
How We Can Help:
A successful restaurant preparing to franchise needed trademark protection before licensing the name. We conducted clearance searches, filed federal trademark applications for the name and logo, and created licensing agreements—enabling nationwide franchise expansion with protected intellectual property.
Learn more →Common Legal Issues We Solve
Commercial Lease Negotiations
Protecting your interests in multi-year lease agreements, securing favorable terms, and avoiding hidden costs that can sink profitability.
Liquor Licensing & Permits
Navigating complex state and local liquor licensing requirements, entertainment permits, and regulatory compliance for bars and restaurants.
Multi-Location Expansion
Structuring entities properly to protect assets, creating operating agreements, and ensuring consistency across multiple locations.
Employment Disputes & Compliance
Wage and hour compliance, tip pooling regulations, employment contracts, and workplace policies that protect your business.
Free Hospitality Resource
Download our comprehensive hospitality legal handbook for bars, restaurants, and venues.
Hospitality Legal Handbook
Licenses, contracts, and compliance for bars, restaurants, and venues.
Why Hospitality Operators Choose Us
Transparent pricing. No billable hour surprises.
AI-native efficiency with attorney oversight.
Outside Counsel that works WITH you.
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Book a strategy call to discuss your hospitality business. Fixed fees. Strategic partnership. Legal infrastructure that moves at your speed.