Franchising is a global business model that has proven to be effective worldwide. Its many advantages include an excellent opportunity to develop “your own brand”; it allows the franchisor to expand with “associates” in various territories or markets without necessarily contributing liquid capital, but rather contributing intellectual capital for which it is rewarded. For the franchisee it opens the prospect of conquering a market with the support of a franchise that already has prestige and recognition among consumers.
For the operation to be successful and the parties to benefit, specialized comprehensive legal advice is required from experienced experts.
Throughout 30 years of service, DMK Abogados has been and is recognized for having experts in the field of franchises in the Dominican Republic, encouraging and helping its clients to build and expand their businesses as efficiently as possible.
In 2014, DMK Abogados partnered with the renowned Mexican firm Gallástegui Armella Franquicias, the leading advisory firm in the field of franchising in Latin America, with a 30-year track record of assisting more than 1,000 Latin American companies to set up in the USA, Europe and China. The purpose of this partnership was to offer comprehensive services in Developing Franchise Systems in the Dominican Republic, helping convert successful local businesses with franchise potential into easily reproducible concepts both domestically and overseas, thus allowing them to expand and monopolize a larger market by granting franchises to operate to third parties.
Prior to the pandemic, this successful Gallastegui Armella-DMK Abogados partnership assisted more than 15 Dominican companies in the areas of food, beverages, jewelry, package delivery (courier), among others.
Next year, Gallastegui Armella-DMK Abogados aims to relaunch the efficient franchise model to the Dominican market. Based on our experience we offer a comprehensive service in the development of franchises, as well as a variety of complementary services, including process standardization, writing up operations manuals, franchising companies organization, technical assistance programs, among others.
DMK Abogados provides advice on structuring the legal framework in franchise systems ranging from intellectual property issues, advice on exporting, importing and adapting franchises, advice on corporate machinery and the legal structure of companies and commercial networks, and litigation.
We are the leading law firm for the franchise sector in the Dominican Republic.