Lathrop GPM draws on its broad platform and deep industry knowledge to help retail, restaurant, e-commerce, and consumer products companies navigate rapidly changing industry dynamics, from global supply chains to data privacy regulations to complex restructurings and franchise & distribution transactions.

Lathrop GPM attorneys deeply understand the legal issues that impact clients in this highly competitive business environment. The firm’s success advising retail companies of all sizes and platforms stems from our dedication to helping businesses grow and succeed while protecting brand equity. Our extensive experience and professional breadth allow the firm to provide top-quality counsel in virtually every area affecting retail and e-commerce businesses.

Experience

  • Worked with many clients in various industries to secure necessary domain name rights and related trademark registrations; prepare and customize online policies, terms, and conditions of use, click-through agreements; and register trademarks and copyrights in valuable online content.
  • Represented a large regional bank in a series of related construction loans for a mixed-use project that included hotel and retail space.
  • Obtained a $3.5 million settlement for a shopping center landlord after its anchor tenant, a major grocery chain, ceased operations and abandoned the premises.

  • Provided online search, monitoring and investigation assistance to online financial services client to develop intellectual property protection strategy.
  • Procured agreements for rights to online content for a web production company for the automotive industry.
  • Represented local grocery store and national grocery chain in leasing and subleasing their stores, including licenses for use of space within the stores.
  • Represented landlords in the Borders, Radio Shack, and American Apparel bankruptcies, achieving settlement of a dispute concerning a contingent proof of claim, negotiating the immediate assignment of the lease; and successfully negotiating assumption of lease with no change in lease terms.
  • Represented the owner of a retail shopping center whose anchor tenant withheld a full year of rent. The case was settled a week before trial resulting in our client receiving 100 percent of damages and legal expenses.
  • Assisted grocers in the ground lease and development of grocery stores throughout California.
  • Successfully acquired and registered trademarks for a global online retail services client’s new services and re-brandings, while enforcing its primary and other marks in foreign jurisdictions.
  • Assisted with establishing online policies, agreements and related transactional representation to create a cloud-based social networking platform for connecting outdoor sports enthusiasts and tracking relevant data to organize, track and share.
  • Represented a provider of online services to retail businesses in trademark infringement litigation.
  • Represented clients in web page copying and content misappropriation copyright infringement disputes.
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