Retail
Sonnenchein's expertise in retailing in the antitrust and marketing practices area covers a wide variety of retail formats: general merchandise department stores; grocery stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores; specialty retailing covering all types of consumer products, including clubstores, gasoline retailing, booksellers, sporting goods and marine equipment, hardware goods and home improvement supplies, drugstores and pharmacies, and consumer electronics; and retailing in the travel, restaurant, hospitality, and entertainment sectors. It also covers virtually every venue in the marketplace, including not only more traditional "bricks and mortar" retailing, but also mail order and Internet retailing as well as telemarketing. Over the years Sonnenschein has represented many of America's best-known retailers in litigation, transactional, and regulatory compliance matters.
Sonnenschein's retailing expertise encompasses the wide variety of issues that arise in the modern marketplace. These include expertise in transactions, such as the purchase or sale of stores from or to competing retailers and retailing collaborations among competitors; in litigation, including actions by competitors and suppliers; and in all aspects of regulatory compliance, including traditional antitrust areas such as relationships with suppliers and marketing partners, as well as in the broad arena of marketing, advertising, and promotional activities; and in every aspect of franchising and distribution law, where Sonnenschein has extensive and long-standing expertise.
Sonnenchein's retailing experts have partnered with clients on practically every issue that retailers must confront in the day-to-day operations in the retail space. These assignments regularly take Sonnenchein's lawyers into the corporate boardroom; into federal, state and administrative law courts; before various law enforcement agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and State Attorneys General Offices; and to various self-regulatory entities, such as the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau.
