John D. Moore

Franchising

• Completed numerous franchise and distribution growth initiatives, including advising on franchise system structures, engaging franchise brokers and preparing franchise disclosure documents, franchise agreements and area development agreements
• Restructured numerous franchise concepts and negotiated changes to relationships with franchisees, investors and consultants.
• Counseled publicly held franchise company on acquisitions of various franchise territories in excess of $280 million.
• Advised more than 20 different restaurant concepts on various stages of developing and maintaining franchise concepts.
• Assisted private investment group in acquiring 100+ fast-food franchise locations in North Carolina and Florida from a family-owned business.
• Completed development and sale of franchise concept with over 200 franchise locations by providing advice from franchise start-up through sale transaction.

Mergers & Acquitisitions

• Represented publicly held manufacturing company in series of acquisitions and joint ventures of more than $1 billion.
• Provided acquisition and due diligence support for publicly traded Canadian company in the purchase of U.S.-based franchise system to expand U.S. territory.
• Represented seller of a national accounting firm.
• Completed numerous acquisitions for large engineering and consulting firm in its multi tiered acquisition strategy across different business lines.
• Managed and negotiated more than $1 billion in acquisitions and related financings in the energy industry as member of in-house legal team for Aquila.
• Represented biomedical research data management company in the sale of its business to a larger company, which allowed the client an opportunity to grow into a new market segment.
• Represented client in the sale of its franchise fitness business. The selling shareholders of the client were doing a rollover into equity of the purchaser as part of the sale. The Husch Blackwell team negotiated the terms of the sale and rollover, including earnout and clawback provisions.

Crisis Management

• As key member of the firm's CARES Act resource team, advised clients on accessing COVID-19-driven financial assistance, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Main Street Lending Program.
• Advised distillery on pivoting toward hand sanitizer production amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

General Corporate

• Counseled startup infrastructure and facilities management business.
• Represented client before accountant arbitrator to resolve dispute arising from client's sale of a business unit. Dispute involved whether the purchaser owed client an additional $3.6 million in working capital as part of the purchase price.
• Represented 50-year-old family business in sale of all of its stock to employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
• Counseled various manufacturers and dealers/distributors on termination, nonrenewal and other relationship issues involving the distribution chain.