Luxury, Fashion & Beauty
Salans has a broad range of experience and history with clients in the luxury, fashion & beauty sector. Since the firm's inception over 30 years ago, we have acted for a major luxury products group. It is our particular and extensive experience serving this client that has given us a market-leading insight into developing practical and cost-effective solutions to all our clients in this sector.
Our client base has grown extensively over the past 30 years and now includes representatives from the fashion, fragrance, cosmetics, fine wines, jewellery, tableware, fine arts, furniture design, and publishing industries as well as the artists, models and photographers who work primarily in this sector.
Our Approach and Services
We handle all legal aspects of luxury goods development and commercialisation, from initial design and creation of new products to their ultimate sale to consumers. This work includes negotiating and preparing contracts relating to:
We also have significant experience drafting and negotiating distribution contacts for retail and department stores and wider distribution networks (franchise agreements and online).
We understand the need to protect the premium nature of luxury products, and our intellectual property lawyers deal extensively with issues relating to know-how, copyright and trademarks, particularly in the area of counterfeiting.
The importance of regulatory knowledge cannot be understated in this sector; our team deals with regulations encompassing labelling and packaging, sales and pricing, and environmental health and safety.
Corporate restructurings are commonplace in luxury, fashion and beauty goods; we advise on the buying and selling of product rights, production facilities and distribution networks, as well as on the associated tax issues.