Expand your distribution network internationally

You created a business, invented a service. You then developed a franchise network or more generally a distribution network. You are now ready to export your brand.

There are many export models in your distribution network. While one may be the dominant model of your international expansion, it is rarely the only modus operandi.

Gouache Avocats supports you in defining your implementation strategy and drafting international contracts.

A trademark application offers its owner special and limited territorial protection.

A trademark is protected either for the territory of a State (for example France), or for a set of States offering a unitary trademark right for the entire territory of its Member States (for example within the European Union for which a European filing_to be made in addition to the French filing_ is provided).

Whenever you want to develop your business internationally, you will need to register your brand in the country concerned.

You are a foreign brand, to establish yourself in France, structure your approach to the market, contact the best professionals, be introduced to institutional lessors, Gouache Avocats is at your service.

If you wish to become the French master franchisee of a foreign brand, Gouache Avocats will help you both to negotiate the master franchise contract, and to draft and have the master franchisee validate the sub-franchise contract.

As part of their international distribution contracts, French and foreign brands face litigation risks that can impact their expansion and profitability.

We assist them before the French courts, coordinate our actions with foreign correspondents and manage any arbitration proceedings.

With an office in Spain and a member of the French-Spanish Chamber of Commerce and Industry, GOUACHE Avocats, via its Spanish desk, provides Spanish brands and companies wishing to develop on the French market with all of its skills to successfully achieve this international development.