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Regina Amolsch
Regina concentrates her practice in franchising, licensing, and distribution issues, as well as general corporate transactions. She provides advice and counseling on franchise relations, terminations, transfers, regulatory compliance, establishment and operation of franchise systems, and dispute resolution.
Valerie Brennan
Leslie Curran
Leslie focuses on advising her clients (whether start-up, middle-market, or mature) on franchise and distribution law, including structuring the relationship and regulatory compliance. Her practice emphasizes both domestic and international franchises and licensing, as well as area development, area representative and sub-franchise arrangements.
Marisa Faunce
Marisa counsels franchisors, licensors, and manufacturers on transactional, regulatory and intellectual property issues involved in developing and growing franchise programs. She also counsels franchisors regarding all aspects of the franchise relationship, including operational compliance, system standards, default and termination strategies and franchise workouts.
Dave Koch
Dave co-founded Plave Koch PLC in 2007 after many years of large-firm partnership. His practice focuses on franchising, licensing, and supply chain transactions. Projects include structuring franchise programs and license arrangements, private equity investments in franchising, corporate and commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, antitrust counseling, advertising and marketing, and international expansion.
Michael Laidhold
Lee Plave
Leslie Pujo
Leslie brought her practice of mobility services and vehicle use law and franchising to Plave Koch PLC in April 2016. She is adept at counseling clients on franchise registration and disclosure matters, franchise relationship issues, and pre-litigation dispute resolution, as well as structuring franchise and other distribution systems in a variety of industries and bringing international systems to the United States.
Ben Reed
Associates
Amanda Bannourah
In her time at Plave Koch, Amanda works both on transactional and litigation matters. Amanda helps walk clients through the franchise process, and maintain the franchise relationship once established. She helps prepare franchise, transfer, and renewal agreements, as well as franchise disclosure documents. She coordinates annual franchise registration filings and renewals for the firm’s clients, alongside her co-workers. Further, Amanda helps conduct franchise system due diligence analysis for acquiring entities in merger and acquisition transactions.
Owen Gibson
Nora Murphy
Of Counsel
Joseph (“J.H.”) Snow
With over 40 years of experience in franchising and distribution law, completing transactions in over 40 countries, J.H. is one of the most tenured attorneys on the Plave Koch team, and the only one to hail from the great State of Texas. Before entering private practice in 1994, J.H. served as in-house counsel for a number of corporations, laying the foundation for understanding business from an insider’s perspective, with responsibility for managing both in-house and outside attorneys and ultimately overseeing the legal affairs of a $500 million company from the General Counsel’s chair.
About Plave Koch PLC
Early in 1989, Lee Plave and Dave Koch, both recent alumni of the FTC who knew each other’s names but not faces, found themselves in neighboring associate offices at a mid-size Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in franchising. John Tifford and Jim Rubinger were already there. As Lee and Dave learned the ins and outs of private law practice and the business of franchising, they became fast friends and mutual admirers.
By The Numbers
Partners, Each With 18+ Years of Experience Representing Franchisors
Combined Years of Experience Representing Franchisors
Articles for ABA and IBA Legal Journals
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