BAKER & MCKENZIE

Chicago Office:
One Prudential Plaza
130 East Randolph Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel: (312) 861-8000
Fax: (312) 861-2898/861 2899
Contact: Ms. Pamela Mills, Partner
(pamela.mills@bakernet.com)
Mr. Michael Mensik, Partner
(michael.mensik@bakernet.com)

Dallas Office:
4500 Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Ave.
Dallas, TX 75201
Tel: (214) 978-3000
Fax: (214) 978-3099/978 3096
Contact: Mr. Lawrence J. Johnson, Partner
(lawrence.johnson@bakernet.com)
Mr. Michael E. Santa-Maria, Associate
(michael.santa-maria@bakernet.com

Washington, DC Office:
815 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006-4078
Tel: (202) 452-7000
Fax: (202) 452-7074/452 7073/452 7072
Contact: Mr. David Clanton, Partner
(david.clanton@bakernet.com)

UK/Europe Office:
100 New Bridge St.
London, EC4V 6JA UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 44 171 919 1000
Fax: 44 171 919 1999
Contact: Ms. Ilana Saltzman, Partner
(ilana.saltzman@bakernet.com)
Mr. Russell Lewin, Partner
(russell.lewin@bakernet.com)

Australia/Pacific Rim Office:
AMP Centre
50 Bridge St.
Sydney, NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA
Tel: 61 2 9225 0200
Fax: 61 2 9223 7711
Contact: Ms. Penny Ward, Partner
(penny.ward@bakernet.com)

Other Offices In: Almaty, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Bogota, Brasilia, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Caracas, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Juarez, Kiev, London, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Milan, Monterrey, Moscow, Palo Alto, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, San Diego, San Francisco, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Taipei, Tijuana, Tokyo, Toronto, Valencia, Warsaw, Washington, DC and Zurich.

BAKER & MCKENZIE operates a network of more than 50 full service offices in more than 30 jurisdictions worldwide. In addition to this strong global network, the firm relies on strong domestic reputations established by individual offices which can offer clients simultaneous access to both a substantially locally-based practice and an unrivalled worldwide network.

The firm's international and domestic franchising practices benefit from and demonstrate the strength and importance of its global network. The firm's leading franchise practices act for a wide variety of businesses engaged in franchising activities, both as franchisor and - although less frequently - franchisee. Each of these offices' franchising practice covers both local and international franchising, the international practice being facilitated and enhanced by BAKER & MCKENZIE's international network of offices (as well as, where appropriate, associated and correspondent firms), and in this context the local office assuming both an advisory and co-ordination role in instructing and working closely with relevant offices and co-ordinating responses to clients both locally and abroad.

In each relevant office, the franchising practice includes representation of:

· locally-based franchisors and franchisees, in relation to local and international franchise operations;

· foreign (predominantly U. S. -based) franchisors, in relation to proposed local franchise operations;

· locally-based and overseas franchisors, in relation to proposed franchise operations internationally.

The international franchising practice is commercially based, involving advice on a broad range of issues, such as tax, corporate, competition/anti-trust, intellectual property, immigration, property, employment and more general contractual issues, and also extending to contentious aspects which embrace advising upon potential disputes with franchisees and third parties in franchise territories.