Our service:

Clients choose FSI's retail and leisure team because of our:

• significant track record in the retail and leisure sector
• our ability to support on all their legal needs - from property acquisitions to employment disputes to copyright infringements
• interest in the sector and willingness to address ‘industry issues’ - a leisure focused no smoking event and our survey of fashion houses are testament to this
• ability to provide support across the UK and internationally through our membership of Meritas 

Recent experience advising:

• X Leisure on the acquisition of Cardigan Fields, the leisure complex in Leeds from British Land
• shareholders of Blues Clothing on the management buy-out of the company
• a major leisure operator with regard to contractual whitsleblowing and an age discrimination claim by the gaming industry
• Minoan Group Plc, the leisure resort development company, on their transfer from the PLUS Market to AIM
• Tragus Holdings on the property aspects of the £267 million sale of the Café Rouge, Bella Italia and Ortega restaurants to Blackstone Private Equity. The sale encompassed the entire portfolio consisting of some 180+ properties
• Royletest Limited on the surrender of the lease of the Waitrose supermarket in Bournemouth and the grant of a new 20 year lease to Marks and Spencer Plc
• X-Leisure, the UK’s largest leisure fund, as they invest in new projects. The team have advised on the £11.1m disposal of Cineworld Multiscreen Cinema in Sixfields, Northampton, the £9.5m purchase of the UGC cinema in Brighton and the £85.5m sale of Star City in Birmingham to REIT Asset Management
• Cartier on the acquisition of premises at the prestigious Royal Exchange, located in the heart of the City
• Brooks Brothers on the acquisition of a prime retail site for their flagship store on Regent Street
• a leisure park operator in a claim for vicarious liability for the alleged acts of an employee towards contractor staff. Case dismissed at trial
• Ultimate Leisure, owner of more than 30 drinking venues, each individually styled, on the acquisition of 1 - 3 Bishopsgate, London
• L K Bennett on the expansion of their retail operation including three acquisitions in one month in Croydon Centrale, Pavillions Birmingham and Met Quarter Liverpool
• Beaverbrooks on the acquisition of six units in Warrington, Leicester, Derby, Doncaster, Cardiff and Cribbs Causeway, Bristol
• Monsoon on the expansion of their retail operations and acquisition of prime retail units in Manchester - the Arndale Centre, Fosse Park, Doncaster - Frenchgate, Monks Cross, Hay’s Galleria, Walton-on-Thames and Middlesbrough
• Pizza Hut, on the roll out programme for their new units
• Simon Carter Accessories Limited on licensing agreements and trade mark matters for internationally renowned designer of menswear and accessories
• Monsoon on all aspects of main celebrity photo-shoots and media buying arrangements
• Magnus and Warren Footwear Limited in a successful defence of trade mark/passing off claim by Dolcis
• Lloyd Shoe Company in relation to threatened design right claims by Lacoste and others