Cost-Effective Results

From creating and guiding start-up corporations to counseling some of America’s largest companies engaged in multimillion and multibillion-dollar transactions, our corporate team is uniquely situated to handle the most delicate and critical business transactions with consummate skill and optimal results.

For the mature business entity, this means sophisticated and skilled counsel in the areas of corporate governance; mergers and acquisitions; business and contractual matters; regulatory compliance; corporate reorganizations; securitizations (particularly in franchising); venture capital investing; joint ventures and partnerships; the purchase or sale of significant assets (including entire corporate divisions) and/or shareholder interests; liability shields for individual officers and directors; preparing extraordinarily tight agreements that accurately reflect the ultimate deal and minimize the likelihood that litigation will ever ensue (and, if it does, that the terms of the agreement will protect our client’s interests); and, representing with zeal, experience and effectiveness corporations involved in vital and high profile legal proceedings.

 Notable Accomplishments

• Participating, in various capacities, in some of the most significant merger, acquisition and spin-off activity conducted in the franchise arena over the past thirty years, including:
  • the $25 billion acquisition of Hilton Worldwide, Inc. by the Blackstone Group;
  • the acquisition of Wendy’s International, Inc. by Trian Partners L.P.;
  • Restaurant Inc’s divestiture of The Long John Silvers and A&W Restaurant networks;
  •  the acquisition of CiCi’s Pizza, Wetzel’s Pretzels and Lawn Doctor by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners;
  • 7-Eleven’s acquisition of White Hen Pantry;
  • Hilton Hotel Corporation’s acquisition of Promus Corporation (Embassy Suites/Doubletree Hotels/Hampton Inns/Homewood Suites);
  • Cendant Corporation’s acquisition of Wyndham, Ramada Inns, Days Inns, Super 8 Motels, Howard Johnson and Baymont Hotels;
  • Acquisition of Church’s Chicken by Friedman, Fleischer & Lowe;
  • Acquisition of Perkin Family Restaurants by Castle Harlan; and
  • Representing Purchasers and Sellers in corporate deals too numerous to mention.
• With co-counsel, structuring and effecting the first successful securitization of a franchisor’s revenue stream ever accomplished and participating in virtually every subsequent franchise securitization.

SERVICES FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND NEW BUSINESSES

 Start-up entities and entrepreneurs who are only beginning their journey will find that IFG is uniquely positioned to help them embark, grow and achieve their goals. From determining what type of business entity should be created to ascertaining what state or foreign country should be the situs of incorporation; what capitalization and financing will be required; board composition and voting rights; classes and number of shares to be offered; corporate governance; shareholders’ agreements; buy/sell agreements; and assisting family owned or other closely held businesses in planning and structuring successor management and ownership, our corporate team is uniquely situated to guide the start-up business entity with a remarkable degree of foresight, efficiency and economy.

As with all other aspects of the firm’s service, every effort is undertaken to minimize the fees associated with corporate assignments. We know the enormous pressure that corporate counsel are under to keep their budgets in line and to minimize outside counsel fees. And we make every effort to help them do just that.

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