NEWS

Commercial Mortgage Bailout (CMBS): negotiated more than $510 million dollar CMBS. more

Liquidated Damages: Negotiated/Litigated more than $250 million dollars. more

Fair Franchising Legal Services

Common Grounds of Fair Franchising in Hotel/Motel Franchise Owner, Investor, and Management Structure

Sharma Law Group works closely with hotel/motel developers and entrepreneurs to determine: Ownership structure between equity participants and prepare shareholder, operating, and unit investor agreements for a new construction or conversion of an existing hotel/motel as a franchise facility requiring a review of franchise agreement to incorporate the Common Grounds of Fair Franchising.

Brand Performance based advertising, marketing support, training and area of protection.
Develop and implement elements of business deal e.g. reduced monthly fees; exclusion of specific rooms and or gross room revenues; the amount of development incentive note and the period to write off the note, and brand based incentives.
Incorporate fair franchising policy and territorial protections.

Assignment and Assumption of existing Franchise Agreement.
Intra-family and future transfers at favorable fees.
Incorporation of specific state franchise law protections.
Limits of liquidated damages.
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration, and or litigation.

Based upon our experience of more than thirty (30) years, we utilize the agreement review process to implement Franchisor’s flexibility to incorporate, among others, the enclosed common grounds of Fair Franchising on a case by case basis. We continue to establish higher bars of excellence in representing franchisees in general and hotel/motel owners in particular, in litigating the unenforceability of the liquidated damages clause of the Franchise Agreement.

Mohan KumarAdministrator, Fair Franchising

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