Overview

Franchising is big business in Canada. From traditional quick service restaurants and fast food outlets, to motor vehicle repair centres, drug stores, hotels, educational facilities, children's play centres, second-hand goods stores, convenience stores, donut shops, hair salons, tax services, and fitness centres, franchised businesses continue to expand in virtually every product and service industry. With this rapid growth of franchising as a business model and with an increased public profile for litigation issues involving franchising, the practice of franchise law has become much more complex. Typically, a counsel to either the franchisor or the franchisee requires legal knowledge in many disparate fields including contract law, intellectual property law, competition law, real estate law, bankruptcy and insolvency, personal property security legislation, remedies and damages (including equitable relief), commercial litigation and class proceedings, and labour law. This book, written by one of Canada's foremost franchise lawyers, lays out a clear roadmap guiding the reader through the twists and turns of the franchising relationship. The book will appeal to experienced franchise lawyers as well as to counsel new to the field. The full text of Alberta, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island franchising legislation is also included.

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Geared primarily towards franchise practitioners and even franchisors, this text takes an in-depth look, from a franchisor perspective, of the specific legal requirements of franchising in Canada. Of particular value in this text is the broad section discussing business practices, which provides practical information relating to assignments and guarantees, security considerations, and bankruptcy and receivership as they affect franchisors in Canada. The text has useful commentary dealing with provincial liquor license legislation, and devotes a fair amount of space to the tax issues in franchising... Overall, this text is very well written, comprehensive, and fits nicely into, while complementing, the existing literature on franchise law in Canada which was, until last year, primarily populated by larger looseleaf services and annotations on particular provincial legislation. - Daniel F. So, Associate Lawyer in Franchise Law, McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP, London, Ontario, in the Canadian Law Library Review

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Frank Zaid is a senior partner in the Toronto, Ontario office of firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. His practice focuses on advising franchisors, franchisee associations, and others involved in franchising on all aspects of Canadian franchise legal matters.

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