Recent Successes: Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal, P.C.
Michael S. Rosenthal is an attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Michael has been in practice for 35 years. Michael focuses his practice on franchise and distribution law. Michael particularly enjoys representing “inbound” foreign franchisors coming to the U.S. market and individual investors seeking to immigrate to the U.S. by qualifying for visas tied to the creation of jobs and investment in the U.S.
Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal, P.C. is a business law practice boutique formed in 1981. In addition to franchise matters, its practice includes corporate, transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, commercial real estate, business litigation, intellectual property and employment law matters. The firm has a history of helping entrepreneurs and their companies succeed, and prides itself on its long-standing relationships with many of its clients.
Recent successes:
- Assisted a fitness studio franchisor in the acquisition and vertical integration of the manufacturing company that was the primary source of equipment and IP to the franchise system. This $7,000,000 transaction was seller financed in its entirety.
- Assisted a hotel franchisee in obtaining and closing a construction loan which will allow it to construct an Embassy Suites Hotel in suburban Atlanta.
- Helped a hair salon multi-unit franchisee obtain a ruling from a federal district court that the restrictive business covenants (not to open or operate competing hair salons in a given geographic area) in the franchise agreement were unenforceable and void under Georgia law, invalidating those provisions as to over 70 franchise agreements in Georgia.