Retail and brands

Our international retail and brands group is a market leading practice serving clients in the consumer, retail and leisure sectors.

We act for many of the world’s most prestigious brands, luxury goods manufacturers, food and beverage producers and consumer goods manufacturers as well as wholesalers and retailers.

We advise on the full range of transactions in these sectors, from brand licensing and franchising, joint ventures, equity capital market fundraising and IPOs, private equity and complex cross-border M&A.

The way the group is organised reflects the variety and breadth of the work undertaken by the firm in the sector. We were one of the first law firms to establish industry business groups to sit alongside our global practice areas. This has helped us retain and enhance our reputation for understanding not just the law, but also our clients’ businesses, the value drivers in their industry and the pressures which influence their decisions.

The group is drawn from our global network and brings together leading practitioners with expertise in such areas as corporate finance, competition (antitrust) and regulatory, dispute resolution, commercial, employment pensions and benefits, tax, business ethics and anti-corruption, intellectual property and real estate.