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Retail, Consumer & Luxury Law

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Brands have never been more valuable, or more vulnerable. Global trade in a digital economy gives brands an unprecedented reach into virtually every market in the world. It also creates risks to brand protection at a pace of change that has never existed before.

Bennett Jones provides clients in the retail, consumer products and luxury brands space with an unrivaled combination of customs law, intellectual property and tax expertise. We help businesses access the Canadian market and build and protect their value and brand reputation in Canada and around the world.

We represent clients who own major luxury and mass market brands and who produce a wide range of goods including fashion, accessories, automobiles, aircraft, and food and beverages. We serve businesses in Canada and around the world at all stages in the global and domestic supply chain, from the design and development of brands to their trade and sale.

What Bennett Jones Can Do for Your Brand

Retail, Consumer & Luxury Law

IP Protection and Reputation Management

  • IP Acquisition
  • IP Enforcement
  • IP Exploitation
  • Crisis Response Management

Advertising and Marketing

  • Management of social media channels and user-generated content
  • Online shopping and data protection
  • Product placements and sponsorship rights

Labeling, Liability and Safety

  • Regulatory compliance
  • Authorized and safe product testing
  • Ethical source and origin tagging

Consumer Rights

  • Pricing, payment and proof of purchase regulations
  • Terms of supply agreements
  • Consumer purchase, warranty, and cancellation agreements

International Trade, Commerce,
and Taxation

  • Business and transaction structuring and restructuring
  • Supply chain regulation and compliance
  • Customs and international trade structuring, compliance and dispute resolution

People and Property

  • Employment policies and agreements, training, termination, investigations
  • Founder, partner and survivorship agreements
  • Retail space agreements, including freehold and leasing, pop-up shops, concessions and shop-in-shops

Key Contacts

  • Darrel H. Pearson Darrel H. Pearson, Partner
  • Jeilah Y. Chan Jeilah Y. Chan, Partner, Trademark Agent
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Recent Experience

SENSO Lighting Inc., in the sale of 100% of its outstanding equity securities to Luminii, LLC, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company.
Expedia, Inc. in a national class action for breach of contract, including a successful post-certification motion for summary judgment. Magill v. Expedia, Inc., 2014 ONSC 1634.
OBS Group Holdings, on the restructuring of its Skycourts Assets and related Sharia'a financing.
Safeway Inc., as competition counsel, with the $5.8-billion sale of substantially all of its Canadian assets to Sobeys Inc.
Various franchisees, in the successful enforcement of statutory disclosure obligations and rights of rescission under the Alberta Franchises Act and Regulation. 2011 ABQB 594, 2008 ABCA 276, affirming 2007 ABQB 686

Insights, News & Events

Speaking Engagements

Jeilah Chan Leads IP and Brand Protection Strategy Discussion

December 03, 2020
       

Speaking Engagements

Sara Parchello on Human Resource Issues for Business: GVBOT Webinar

March 26, 2020
       

In the News

Simon Grant on Smart Contracts and Collaboration

May 28, 2019
       

In the News

Valerie Hughes on E-Commerce and the WTO

May 27, 2019
       

Updates

Introducing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

October 04, 2018
       

Updates

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rana Plaza Class Action

October 06, 2017
       

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