Nicholas D'Amico

Business law representative for broad range of industries

Nick D'Amico represents clients in a variety of industries and business sectors, focusing on franchise and distribution, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and general corporate matters. Nick has advised franchise clients in industries including healthcare, home services, restaurants and hospitality, food and beverage, health, fitness and wellness, nail, hair and massage salons, coworking, business and professional services, travel, manufacturing, for-profit and non-profit education and childcare, and several others. He also provides outside general counsel services to his clients, advising on a host of business and legal matters including:

• Corporate, joint-employment and employee misclassification
• Leasing and commercial contracting
• Financing
• Franchise relationship matters
• Dispute resolution

Nick regularly advises franchise clients on all aspects of Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) preparation and registration, including advising on financial performance representations and other disclosure compliance, managing state filings and responding to substantive inquiries from state examiners.

• Lead franchise and M&A counsel on the reorganization and capital restructuring of a national fitness brand.
• Lead franchise counsel on a multi-billion-dollar whole-business securitizations of franchised restaurant business.
• Lead franchise counsel on a $300M whole-business securitizations of franchised restaurant business.
• Lead franchise counsel on the multi-billion-dollar sale of a franchised restaurant business to private equity.
• Lead franchise counsel on the billion-dollar sale of a franchised restaurant business to a restaurant conglomerate.
• Lead franchise and M&A counsel in the $60M sale of a franchised home services business.
• Lead franchise counsel in the $150M sale of a franchised sanitation business.
• Lead M&A counsel on the $20M sale of a building management business.
• Lead M&A counsel on the merger of two not-for-profit childhood education organizations.
• Lead buy-side M&A counsel on several add-on and platform acquisitions by a global facility services business, ranging in size from $10M to over $100M.