A franchise is a legal and commercial relationship between a franchisor that owns a trademark of a business and a franchisee that intends to use such trademark. Malaysia has a proper authority that covers the comprehensive area of franchise.

We have a strong team of franchising lawyers having represented clients in franchise transactions in expanding their business nationally and for multinationals that are expanding their businesses across the globe. The team possesses extensive experience in assisting clients to draft franchise agreements, corporate structure of business, navigate franchising regulations and to represent clients for franchising disputes and litigations.

Our range of services:

• Application for licenses, permits and approvals related to franchising from the relevant authorities
• Determine the corporate structure of entities
• Providing advisory work
• Identifying legal risk assessments
• Drawing up compliance programmes