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Our leisure and hospitality solicitors provide commercial legal advice to restaurants, bars, pubs, hotels, visitor attractions, venues and leisure operators across Manchester and the UK.
From opening your first site to expanding a national portfolio, managing commercial challenges or planning an exit, our specialist lawyers provide practical, joined-up advice shaped around your business.
Successful leisure and hospitality businesses require more than specialist legal advice in a single area. They need advisers who understand how all aspects of the business fit together.
Our lawyers regularly support clients with acquisitions, disposals, investment transactions, licensing, restructurings, commercial contracts, commercial disputes, intellectual property protection, employment issues and property portfolio management.
By drawing on expertise from across the firm, we help clients respond quickly to opportunities, overcome challenges and make informed strategic decisions.
We advise clients throughout Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Cheshire, Lancashire and the wider North West, while also acting for leisure and hospitality businesses across England and Wales.
From independent restaurants and bars to hotels, pubs, sports clubs, festivals, visitor attractions and national leisure and hospitality brands, we are trusted by businesses looking for responsive legal support from advisers who understand the sector and the commercial pressures that come with it.
Manchester has one of the UK’s most vibrant leisure and hospitality markets, spanning restaurants, bars, hotels, sports venues, visitor attractions and experiential businesses. Kuits has advised businesses across this market in Manchester, the North West and the wider UK for many years.
We understand the commercial realities facing leisure and hospitality operators. From securing premises and obtaining licences to managing staff, acquiring new sites and resolving disputes, businesses in the sector require legal advisers who understand how the industry works and the challenges that can impact profitability and growth.
Our Manchester-based leisure and hospitality solicitors work with independent operators, established regional brands, national hospitality groups, investors, developers and leisure entrepreneurs. We provide practical, commercially focused legal advice that helps businesses open, grow, protect and realise value from their operations.
The firm has built a strong reputation within the sector through its longstanding relationships with leisure and hospitality businesses and its active involvement in the industry. We are proud supporters of Northern Restaurant & Bar (NRB) and the Kuits NRB Top Fifty Awards, which celebrate the most influential hospitality operators across the North. This involvement helps us remain closely connected to the issues, trends and opportunities shaping the sector.
Our multidisciplinary team brings together specialists in licensing, commercial property, corporate law, employment law, commercial contracts, intellectual property, dispute resolution and restructuring. This joined-up approach gives leisure and hospitality businesses access to the legal expertise they need at every stage of their journey, from opening and expansion to protecting operations and planning an exit.
Whether you are launching a new restaurant in Manchester, expanding a multi-site hospitality group, acquiring a leisure business, managing employment issues or planning for future growth, our leisure and hospitality solicitors provide strategic advice tailored to your commercial objectives.
Many of our clients view us as an extension of their management teams, turning to us for day-to-day support as well as strategic advice on significant business decisions.
What our leisure and hospitality clients say
The team at Kuits are responsive, commercial and are able to deliver advice on complex issues in a straightforward and business friendly manner. The commercial team have recently advised us on a variety of hotel management agreements and their skills and experience in this sector ensured we received commercially-minded, Â strategic advice helping us to deliver on a number of projects.
Speak to our leisure and hospitality solicitors about your plans, challenges or opportunities. Our Manchester-based team can identify the legal support you need and connect you with the right specialists across the firm.
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