Consultancy and advisory

As leading advisers in franchising law, clients often ask us to help them not only with legal advice, but also with their franchise strategy. It can be difficult identifying advisors, who truly understand the international franchise business model. So we created Dentons Franchise Advisory to fill this gap and offer you an alternative to working with generalist business advisory firms. We help you beyond the law, leveraging the wealth of market data and industry insights at our fingertips.

The journey as a global franchisor or franchisee can be complex, but highly rewarding when undertaken properly with the right legal structures, systems, people and planning in place. You should never compromise on any of these elements; Dentons Franchise Advisory is ready to help and guide you every step of the way.

With more than 75 years of franchise industry knowledge, Dentons is in a strong position to help you design, grow and benchmark your franchise business model. Dentons has already represented more than 400 franchise systems in over 85 countries. Backed up by more than 200 offices around the world, the Dentons Franchise Group offers you a one-stop-shop for your advisory needs.

We often hear from in-house counsel about the key priorities for their teams, which alongside the procurement and management of external law firms, also includes the challenges every business unit faces, such as:

• articulating their team's purpose and strategy
• recruiting, retaining and developing talent
• managing and defending budgets
• implementing efficiency programs and technology
• creating and maintaining strong relationships with other business stakeholders

Dentons In-House Solutions supports legal teams across all dimensions of the management of a law department – from developing a strategy and plan for the function, to introducing efficiencies and managing change to ultimately demonstrating the value of the legal function. We also help teams with their most important asset –their people – by providing the right training and development opportunities.

Taking care of the day to day, every day, for busy legal teams through a premium managed service that supports some of the UK's leading companies in the delivery of their low-to-medium complexity work. We bring the cutting-edge process improvements, matter management techniques, technology and data analytics of the world's largest law firm to blue-chip brands, whose legal teams are looking to get the right balance of work across their function to improve efficiency and demonstrate value.

We created multiple regulatory tracking tools for Dentons' clients, and developed a sophisticated online platform to house this content in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. We provide access to our platform or help clients to build their own multi-jurisdictional tools by sharing valuable insights and experience.