Retail & Consumer Products

Stradling attorneys serve a wide range of national and regional restaurant chains, early-stage restaurant companies, retail chains, and individual retailers, licensors, and franchisors.

Our attorneys have extensive experience representing growing chains through financing rounds to sale, public offering, or other exit. We also represent private equity firms in major acquisitions of retail and restaurant chains.

Stradling attorneys have deep expertise with the issues facing restaurant and retail companies, including:

• The sale, purchase, lease, or development of store sites
• Purchase and sale of assets
• Trademarks and other intellectual property
• Taxes levied on retailers and restaurateurs
• Alcoholic beverage compliance
• Defense of wage-and-hour and other workplace-related class action suits

Stradling offers its clients, both public and private, a wide variety of strategies and options for accessing capital. We are among the leading law firms in Southern California in the IPO market.

Our attorneys work with private and institutional investors, as well as with established banking and financial institutions, representing borrowers, issuers, underwriters, and selling shareholders in equity, equity-linked, and related transactions, including:

• PIPES
• Secondary offerings
• Rule 144A offerings
• Commitment letters
• Loan agreements
• Equipment leases
• Accounts receivable and asset-backed financings
• Credit lines
• Bridge loans
• Letters of credit