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		<title>FRANCHISING LAW CHANGE IN NEW YORK</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/franchising-law-change-in-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of New York has launched what may become an effort to tax franchisors with franchisees operating in the Empire State, no matter where the franchisors themselves operate.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=168&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT EVERY LAWYER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FRANCHISE LAW &#8211;  Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent blogs, I've talked about three critical facts to know about franchise law.  Here are the final two of which to be aware.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=164&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT EVERY LAWYER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FRANCHISE LAW &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog I addressed how the law determines if a business qualifies as a franchise.  Here are other pitfalls that face the unwary.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=157&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT EVERY LAWYER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FRANCHISE LAW &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Too often, expansion-minded business owners opt for a strategy offering trademarked products or services through licensing arrangements or distribution or dealership systems only to discover, well into the game, that what they have really done is turn themselves into franchisors—“accidental franchisors,” maybe, but franchisors nonetheless.

This is good news for the entrepreneur who runs a sophisticated business operation capable of meeting the many punctilios of California franchise law. It is bad news for the entrepreneur who doesn’t. In fact, it can spell disaster for the unwitting entrepreneur who steps over the fine line that separates franchising from other commercial arrangements involving trademarked goods or services.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=153&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FRANCHISE LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE CHECKLIST &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/franchise-legal-due-diligence-checklist-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the items discussed last week, here are additional items that should be reviewed as part of the due diligence checklist.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=149&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEGAL DUE DILIGENCE FRANCHISE CHECKLIST</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/legal-due-diligence-franchise-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business lawyer doing due diligence in the purchase of a franchise company must track down a great many documents to gain an accurate picture of the relationships between the franchisor and its franchisees.

Then the real work begins, since it is also necessary to inspect the documents in detail and draw up representations and warranties holding the seller of the franchise company responsible for any agreements or information contrary to or inconsistent with the documents inspected or information provided during due diligence.
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		<title>MONEY IN THE BANK: HOW TO VALUE A LARGE FRANCHISEE BUSINESS &#8211; Chapter 3</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/money-in-the-bank-how-to-value-a-large-franchisee-business-chapter-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news in all of this is that a profitable large franchisee with, say, 50 outlets up and running, and with rights to open up another 50 in a promising market, may well command a substantial premium in a sale to a private equity group.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=139&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MONEY IN THE BANK: HOW TO VALUE A LARGE FRANCHISEE BUSINESS &#8211; Chapter 2</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/money-in-the-bank-how-to-value-a-large-franchisee-business-chapter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In valuing the operations of a large franchisee, the game begins with a disciplined effort to understand who owns what in that web of assets and rights and to determine how much each factor contributes to the whole or detracts from it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=136&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MONEY IN THE BANK:  HOW TO VALUE A LARGE FRANCHISEE BUSINESS</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/money-in-the-bank-how-to-value-a-large-franchisee-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their eagerness to put their money to work in the restaurant industry, private equity groups are stalking large franchisees.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=132&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Master Franchisees Beware</title>
		<link>http://franchiselaw.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/master-franchisees-beware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last but not least, master franchisees should review the ways in which they encourage unit franchisees to expand their businesses. The contracts between these parties typically allow the latter to drum up business on their own – one sign of an independent operation – but in many cases master franchisees do all the prospecting for new customers, in effect telling unit franchisees that they have clients wanting service and that the limits on unit franchisee income depend only on how many territories the unit franchisees can afford to buy up and service. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=franchiselaw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7661038&amp;post=118&amp;subd=franchiselaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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