Kleinbard has extensive experience representing consumer product and retail clients across a wide range of categories, such as:
- Food and beverage, including supermarkets and franchised retailers;
- Weight loss services;
- Residential alarm/security services;
- Mobile phone and other wireless services;
- Beauty salons and hair replacement;
- Clothing;
- Furniture;
- Funeral and burial services; and
- School/office supplies.
Our services for such clients run the gamut of our practice areas and include the following areas:
- Corporate governance;
- Mergers & acquisitions;
- Real estate acquisitions for retail locations;
- Shopping center leases;
- Trademark and other intellectual property licensing;
- Commercial contract review;
- Website and other IT service agreements;
- Advice and counseling on advertising and other marketing materials;
- Employment counseling and restrictive covenant enforcement; and
- General commercial litigation and the defense of consumer class actions.
Some of our recent matters for consumer product/retail clients include:
- Representing a publicly-held weight loss company in connection with the expansion of its brand into Asia through an exclusive license to a major Japanese food manufacturer.
- Representing the controlling party in a start-up joint venture to acquire the North American distributorship of a technologically-advanced hair replacement product.
- Representing a national supermarket chain in successfully enforcing a restrictive covenant in a shopping center lease against a major national discount retailer.
- Representing a wireless telecommunications company in the defense of a nationwide consumer class action relating to billing practices.
- Representing a brand name office products manufacturer in the avoidance of a product recall in Canada.
- Monitoring Pennsylvania legislative and regulatory developments for a major regional funeral services provider.
- Representing a well known regional luxury clothing retailer in a civil antitrust action to invalidate resale price restrictions.
- Representing a real estate developer in connection with the obtaining of a New Markets Tax Credit for a supermarket in a low-income neighborhood.
- Representing a franchisee of a nationally-distributed ice cream manufacturer in connection with acquisitions and sales of retail store locations.
- Representing a well known online food retailer in the joint venture establishing its first frozen food line (a product category that currently represents the majority of the client’s revenue).
- Representing a major national retailer in the successful defense of a trademark infringement claim by an international competitor.
- Representing a well known Philadelphia neighborhood food co-op in the acquisition of its current building.
- Representing a well known Philadelphia-based jewelry manufacturer and retailer in connection with the buyout of a preferred shareholder and restructuring of the terms of its preferred equity and debt.
