About us
Adele Vespa graduated with her J.D. in the top 5% of her class from Capital University Law School. Licensed in Ohio and Georgia, she has spent over 30 years in both private practice and in senior legal positions with major franchise chains. She practiced law in private practice in Ohio with the law firms of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease and Arter & Hadden, handling franchise and real estate legal matters. During that period, she represented some of the top fast-food restaurant chains, small food service businesses, carpet cleaning franchisors and real estate brokerage franchisees.
Transitioning to Georgia in the late 1990s, she was privileged to work closely with the late franchise lawyer and esteemed scholar, Rupert Barkoff, as Of Counsel with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in Atlanta, GA.
Adele then served as Assistant General Counsel for Huddle House, Inc., and Chief Franchise Counsel for AFC Enterprises, LLC, dba Popeyes Restaurants for nearly a decade.
She proudly served as General Counsel for Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC in Madison, NJ, one of the largest real estate brokerage franchise companies, expanding her franchise legal experience tackling all legal matters for Coldwell Banker. Specifically, she worked collaborating with senior management on numerous issues regarding disclosure issues, franchise contract negotiations and preparation, dispute resolution daily, mutual termination options, litigation management, vendor contracts, and marketing campaigns including internet advertising issues, and annual franchise sales training to sales directors and senior leadership.
She has real world experience! She has a winning record! She has notable mediation settlements in a variety of franchise industry businesses including food service, restaurants, commercial janitorial, beauty space, health and fitness, and learning schools with over 90% of matters mediated settled by the parties.
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References available on request.
