The Restaurant and Retail group’s attorneys serve a wide range of national and regional restaurant chains, early-stage restaurant companies, retail chains and individual retailers, licensors, and franchisors. Our attorneys are experienced at representing growing chains through financing rounds to sale, public offering or other exit. The group also represents private equity firms in major acquisitions of retail and restaurant chains.

The group has deep expertise in the myriad issues particular to the industry such as: the sale, purchase, lease or development of store sites; purchase and sale of assets; trademarks and other intellectual property; the taxes levied on retailers and restaurateurs; alcoholic beverage compliance; and the defense of wage-and-hour and other workplace-related class action suits.

Working with scores of public and private entities, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth offers its clients a wide variety of strategies and options for accessing capital. We are among the leading law firms in Southern California in the IPO market. We have vast experience in structuring all types of public equity transactions and private financings. We represent issuers, underwriters, and selling shareholders in equity, equity-linked, and related transactions including PIPES, secondary offerings, and Rule 144A offerings.

We actively represent clients in a wide range of debt financings. We work with private and institutional investors, as well as with established banking and financial institutions. We also represent borrowers and banks in negotiating and documenting commitment letters, loan agreements, equipment leases, accounts receivable and asset-backed financings, credit lines, bridge loans, letters of credit and other complex debt financing methods. Helping our emerging company clients to grow has resulted in a commercial finance practice with in-depth knowledge of secured and unsecured debt financing vehicles.