Kendal H Tyre JrKendal H. Tyre Jr. is a partner and the co-chair of the Franchise and Distribution Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Nixon Peabody LLP, a multinational law firm with more than 700 attorneys and offices throughout the United States, Chin, and the United Kingdom. His practice primarily involves representing companies in a variety of legal matters relating to franchising and distribution, including international franchising, structuring and developing franchise programs, franchise sales legal compliance, general franchise relationship matters, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, intellectual property licensing and protection, and franchise dispute resolution. He is an internationally recognized franchise lawyer who has represented numerous U.S. and non-U.S. companies in various complex international transactions in over 85 countries, including both assisting non-U.S. franchisors expanding to the United States and U.S. franchisors expanding abroad.
Kendal is a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on Franchising. He currently serves as a vice chair of the International Franchising Committee of the International Bar Association. He has been recognized as one of the premier franchise attorneys in the United States and internationally in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Who's Who Legal, The International Who's Who of Business Franchise Lawyers, and The Franchise Times (where he was named a "Legal Eagle" and one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for franchise law).
Kendal has written extensively about international and U.S. franchise law in the Franchise Law Journal (published by the American Bar Association's Forum on Franchising) and similar publications. He is a frequent speaker at professional conferences held by the American Bar Association's Forum on Franchising, the International Bar Association, and the International Franchise Association.
Kendal currently serves as an editor and author for the "Franchising In . . ." inter- national book series (published by the LexNoir Foundation). He recently served as an editor and author of International Franchising 2016: Legal and Business Considerations, a collaboration of over 60 legal practitioners from around the world. He has also served as an editor of The International Journal of Franchising Law.Kendal received his BA with honors from Brown University and his JD from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Inequality. Read More Read Less