Wormser Kiely Galef & Jacobs - Alcoholic Beverage Control

The Alcohol Beverage/Hospitality Industry Practice Group regularly advises U.S. and multi-national clients interested in establishing or acquiring alcoholic beverage production and/or distribution facilities or acquiring, establishing or restructuring hotel and/or restaurant operations in the United States. The group is divided into three broad areas: (i) corporate/commercial, which serves the everyday business needs of our client (i.e. purchase and sale, joint venture, bottling, importation, distribution agreements and general business advice); (ii) licensing and regulatory (i.e. Federal and state licensing and regulatory compliance requirements, product and label approvals and advertising, marketing, sales promotion and trade practices review and advice) and (iii) litigation (i.e. advice concerning creation and termination of distributor relationships and litigation resulting therefrom under state distributor termination laws).

Wormser Kiely Galef & Jacobs, LLP:

• Currently represent European brewer in purchase of U.S. Brewer and acquisition of U.S. importation and distribution rights to a European beer.

• Currently serve as alcoholic beverage regulatory counsel to the acquirers of two national hotel chains and two national restaurant chains.

• Currently serve as alcoholic beverage regulatory counsel to national restaurant chain operating in Chapter 11.

• Currently serve as alcoholic beverage regulatory counsel in connection with restructuring of international golf course owner.

• Recently served as alcoholic beverage regulatory counsel to a private investment fund with acquired ownership of a publicly-owned national restaurant chain.

• Recently served as special alcoholic beverage and gaming regulatory counsel to private investment fund that acquired the world’s largest bowling center operations.

• Served as special alcoholic beverage regulatory counsel to large European brewery in connection with its acquisition of the largest U.S. hotel chain, which operates or franchises more than 1,300 hotels through its United States subsidiaries. The attorneys represented the acquirer before the fifty state alcoholic beverage control agencies, and that of the District of Columbia, to resolve tied-house issues and to obtain the alcoholic beverage licenses and permits necessary to consummate the acquisition. bottom_nav