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:
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hotels
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leisure
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retail
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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:
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Business owners and directors through our services for individuals
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Corporate
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tax
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Real estate
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Franchising and licensing
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Employment
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Intellectual property
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Dispute resolution including litigation
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Business crime and fraud
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Insolvency and business recovery
Recent experience advising:
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Aspinalls on significant planning matters in relation to work on their flagship Mayfair casino
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Monkey Bizness on three new children's play centres in Hull, Sheffield and Stevenage
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X-Leisure, the UK’s largest leisure fund, on the re-financing of Riverside Entertainment Centre in Norwich with HSBC
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Academy Music Group on their ongoing acquisition programme including sites in Sheffield and Leeds
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Tragus on the acquisition of nine restaurants across four Center Parcs
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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
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Souk Bar & Restaurants on the real estate aspects of their bar concept Ju Ju
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Pizza Hut UK Ltd on the re-franchising of a number of restaurants in the South East
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Desigual on the acquisition of their second store in the UK, located in London's Westfield shopping centre
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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
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the high end furniture retailer, Roche Bobois, on new units in Wandsworth and Walton on Thames, and the acquisition of a new distribution facility
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Quiksilver on the acquisition of the units in Grand Arcade Shopping Centre in Cambridge
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Beaverbrooks on the opening of their new stores in High Cross, Leicester and Westfield, London
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David Clulow on their ongoing management work. We also provide ongoing employment advice for the brand
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Penguin Clothing on the acquisition of their flagship store in Covent Garden
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Anne Fontaine on various employment issues