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HORECA

Lidings offers expert legal advice to leading companies in the dynamically growing and highly competitive hospitality industry. Our HoReCa specialists provide support to major restaurant chains, catering companies, suppliers and manufacturers of equipment, food products, and service providers to hotels, restaurants, bars and cafés, as well as other market participants in this sphere.

We advise leading HoReCa companies on the following legal and regulatory matters:

• Comprehensive legal support to companies entering the Russian market
• Representing clients in their relations with government authorities of the Russian
• Federation during audits, assistance with certification and licensing
• Legal advice on franchising, establishment of distribution chains, and business expansion
• General contractual work, structuring relationships with contractors
• Project finance, legal support to investment projects
• Tax planning
• Representation in lease negotiations
• Legal advice in relation to construction projects
• Legal assistance to catering service providers
• Advising on all aspects of labor law and HR management
• Protection of IP rights
• Advising on legal regulation in the marketing and advertising sphere
• Representation in disputes

RECENT DEALS

• Advising French hotel operator Accor Hotels in regards to establishing a Russian subsidiary
• Advising an American franchise chain of restaurants Trader Vic’s on entering the Russian market
• Advising Turkish catering company OrgaVita on accommodating a catering stall in a large shopping mall
• Advising a restaurant holding company TigRus on business expansion issues in Russia
• Development of a franchise model for the launch of an Australian fruit juice producer Boost Juice’s business in Russia
• Legal analysis and development of an effective business model for the Belgian company Le Pain Quotidien’s operations in Russia, including advising on corporate structuring and protection of intellectual property rights
• Conducting due diligence for McDonalds prior to entering into a land plot lease contract in the Saratov region for the construction of a Drive Through restaurant

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