FRANCHISE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR WINNER
ABOUT ABELEDO GOTTHEIL ABOGADOS
With over 100 years of experience in the Industrial Property field, the Dannemann Siemsen firm has highly qualified professionals within in its organization who are able to act in all Industrial Property matters.
To best meet the specific needs of each client, the Dannemann Siemsen firm has multidisciplinary teams of Industrial Property Agents, with each team carrying out a specific task. Our firm understands that every client is unique in terms of their operations and challenges.
We work actively to protect your Industrial Property rights, we take care of the management of your portfolio of intangible assets with the national and international bodies, allowing you to focus on achieving results.
Investment in Franchising is growing every day. According to the Brazilian Franchising Association (ABF), there are already over 1,850 franchised networks which generate more than 86,300 franchise units. Sales tripled in the last ten years and in 2010
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reached R$75 billion. Brazil is the 5th largest country in terms of franchising.
To accompany this growth, the Dannemann Siemsen firm has a team of qualified professionals for the legal structuring of the business, franchise format, preparation of franchise offering circulars, and especially for the assessment and drawing up of agreements and their recordal with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI/BPTO) and the Central Bank.
“The franchise agreement is the main mechanism for regulating the franchisor/ franchisee relationship. In fact, the Franchise Law deals only with the the time of the Franchise offering, creating the Offering Circular (COF), whereby the franchisor must transparently convey all the relevant information about the business to prospective franchisees.
In this way all the conditions and obligations of the parties in the franchise agreement are expressly defined. The agreement plays the key role of regulating the relationship and guiding the activities of both the franchisor and franchisee.”
CONTACT Rio de Janeiro
Tel: +55 21 2237 8700 Fax: +55 21 2237 8922
Email:
mail@dannemann.com.br
São Paulo Tel: +55 11 2155 9500 Fax: +55 11 5549 2300
Email:
spmail@dannemann.com.br
Brasília Tel: +55 61 3433 6694 Fax: +55 61 3433 6695
Email:
dfmail@dannemann.com.br
According to the Brazilian Franchising Association (ABF), there are already over 1,850 franchised networks which generate more than 86,300 franchise units.
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