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Committee Overview

The International Franchising Committee focuses on the law and business of international franchising. Committee interests include:

• competition law principles;
• cross-border sales and licensing issues; 
• the business forms employed; 
• trademark and intellectual property protections required to assure franchising success.

The Committee has served and continues to play an educational role for the legal profession, judiciary and legislators, and enables members to examine and comment upon legislative and regulatory proposals affecting international franchising. Through the committee's regular newsletter, International Franchising Committee members are kept up to date on legal developments, seminars and publications of interest around the world.

Additionally, the International Franchising Committee works with the following committees to form the International Sales, Franchising and Product Law Section:

International Sales
Product Law and Advertising 

Committee Conferences

For further information on any forthcoming or past IBA event, go to the conference homepage or contact the marketing department.  

Committee Projects

The increasingly borderless world in which many companies regularly conduct business can pose serious challenges for commercial lawyers.  Clients selling goods and services across national borders can trigger a variety of legal issues with which the lawyer will be expected to have familiarity but which may have subtleties and complexities beyond the experience of many practitioners.  Two IBA committees have collaborated on an International Sales Transaction Checklist to help ease the anxiety of lawyers engaged in such transactions.  Through organisation and a brief description of the legal, business and financial issues common to such transactions, as well as cross-referencing to relevant web-based and other source materials, the Checklist should serve as a useful tool for the drafting and negotiation of international sales contracts. Download the Checklist.

Committee Publications

The International Franchising Committee produces a bi-annual newsletter.

Committee members can download the latest issue of the newsletter.

For further details of all IBA publications including books, journals, newsletters, conference papers and free guides and materials go to the publications homepage.  

Members

Links

http://www.europeanfranchising.com/

http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/business/franchiseEducation.cfm

www.franchise.org.au

www.franchise.org

http://www.franchisebusiness.com.au/directory/control/main

http://www.eff-franchise.com/

http://www.worldfranchisecouncil.org/

http://www.franchiseforeningen.se/index/index_eng.html

http://www.franchisenet.net/Frames.asp?CMSLanguageID=1&UID=73&ArticleID=&NewsLetterID=2

http://www.franchise.org.hk

http://www.ccfa.org.cn/english/index.jsp

http://www.ftc.gov.tw/indexEnglish.html

http://www.franchise.at/html_seiten/franchising.htm