Our Sectors

Retail & Leisure (including Hotels)

With a client base including Monsoon Accessorize, Pizza Hut, Café Rouge and Bella Italia, Brooks Brothers, Cartier, Conran Restaurants (now D&D London), X-Leisure, Ultimate Leisure and Top Ten Holdings it’s easy to see why FSI has built a significant reputation in the retail and leisure sector.

Our clients encompass a variety of businesses including:

  • hotels
  • leisure
  • retail
  • restaurants

We provide a wide range of business advice from buying and selling companies, to protecting their brands, to real estate issues.

Our services include:

  • Business owners and directors through our services for individuals
  • Corporate
  • tax
  • Real estate
  • Franchising and licensing
  • Employment
  • Intellectual property
  • Dispute resolution including litigation
  • Business crime and fraud
  • Insolvency and business recovery

Recent experience advising:

  • Aspinalls on significant planning matters in relation to work on their flagship Mayfair casino
  • Monkey Bizness on three new children's play centres in Hull, Sheffield and Stevenage
  • X-Leisure, the UK’s largest leisure fund, on the re-financing of Riverside Entertainment Centre in Norwich with HSBC
  • Academy Music Group on their ongoing acquisition programme including sites in Sheffield and Leeds
  • Tragus on the acquisition of nine restaurants across four Center Parcs
  • X-Leisure on several significant lettings including a double unit to Tesco at their Cambridge Leisure Park, a bowling centre, a letting at Bently Bridge to Subway and lettings in Norwich to Chiquita and Bella Italia
  • Souk Bar & Restaurants on the real estate aspects of their bar concept Ju Ju
  • Pizza Hut UK Ltd on the re-franchising of a number of restaurants in the South East
  • Desigual on the acquisition of their second store in the UK, located in London's Westfield shopping centre
  • Monsoon on the expansion of their retail operations and acquisitions of prime retail units across the UK. We also advise Monsoon on their intellectual property issues
  • the high end furniture retailer, Roche Bobois, on new units in Wandsworth and Walton on Thames, and the acquisition of a new distribution facility
  • Quiksilver on the acquisition of the units in Grand Arcade Shopping Centre in Cambridge
  • Beaverbrooks on the opening of their new stores in High Cross, Leicester and Westfield, London
  • David Clulow on their ongoing management work. We also provide ongoing employment advice for the brand
  • Penguin Clothing on the acquisition of their flagship store in Covent Garden
  • Anne Fontaine on various employment issues