Few industries are as diverse as retail, requiring legal experience for almost every facet of a corporation’s growth. No matter where a company is in its retail life cycle, it faces a myriad of legal issues and challenges. To navigate through these challenges, Schnader’s interdisciplinary Retail Industry Team provides our retail clients with significant experience in that industry.
Our clients include:
- Shopping center owners
- Online and brick & mortar retailers, including Fortune 500 companies
- Apparel and accessory stores
- Restaurant chains
- Discount retailers
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National and regional retailers
We understand the challenges that our retail clients face, such as increasing industry concentration, seasonal cash flow demands, high employee turnover, protection of customer information, and crime-related losses. As a result, we are able to provide our clients with a plethora of services, such as those listed below, in order to meet their legal needs:
- ADA
- Building Permits
- Business Licenses/Conditional Use Permits
- Construction
- Concession Agreements
- Distressed and Arms-Length Acquisitions
- Environmental Issues
- Financial Restructuring & Business Reorganization
- Governmental Affairs
- Intellectual Property
- Insurance
- Licenses and Inspections
- Litigation
- Municipal tickets and violations
- Premises Liability
- Real Estate Transactions and Leasing
- State Administrative Actions
- Signage
- Trade Regulation
- Zoning
Our approach provides clients with a level of value-added service not commonly found in law firms, making Schnader well-positioned to meet our retail clients’ diverse needs.
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