Practice Profile
Fashion
Players in the fashion industry face a broad range of legal issues. How can you best protect your intellectual property rights? Are you fully leveraging your cross-border potential? Have you negotiated the most effective distribution agreement? How can you prevent your goods from falling prey to counterfeiting or the grey market?
Whether you’re a designer, manufacturer, distributor or retailer, the Fashion Industry Practice Group at Cassels Brock can help you achieve your goals. Our lawyers have the knowledge, insight and capacity to ensure your rights are protected and your interests advanced. We can help make sure your business needs are met while minimizing your exposure to risk.
As a practice group specializing in providing services to the fashion industry, our multi-disciplinary team of lawyers is particularly well-positioned to advise on a full spectrum of matters, including all facets of intellectual property, licensing and distribution, customs and international trade, real estate and leasing, franchise law, labour and employment, and litigation and dispute resolution.
We have represented leading brands and trade associations in the fashion industry in Canada and internationally, including:
- Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association
- Chanel
- The Down Association of Canada
- Faces Cosmetics
- Fantastic Sams
- FASHION Magazine
- Fortuny
- Gymboree
- Haggar
- IMG
- Jacadi
- Jennifer Meyer Jewelry
- Jones Apparel Group
- Kodiak
- Lee Wilder Bedwear
- Livs
- Mark’s Work Warehouse
- O’Neill
- Only Accessories
- Ojon Corporation
- Playboy Enterprises
- Quiksilver
- Rolland Hairtrends (Canada)
- Roots
- Skechers
- Spinrite
- Stride Rite
- The Coop
- Toni & Guy
- Toronto Fashion Incubator
- Town Shoes
- Undercoverwear
- Urban Zen
- Velcro Canada
- Weekenders Ladies Wear
The lawyers in the Fashion Industry Practice Group are committed to remaining on the cutting edge of the legal issues that are relevant to their clients. They are members of the Canadian Apparel Foundation, the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Copyright Society of the United States of America (CSUSA) and appear frequently at leading fashion industry conferences and trade shows, including the influential MAGIC show in Las Vegas.