Tanja E. Hens

Tanja Hens advises clients on all aspects of franchise law. She provides franchise guidance and advice to operating companies and investors in a variety of domestic and international business transactions. Tanja teams with franchisors to structure both traditional and exemption-based franchise programs and, in appropriate circumstances, to create and manage licensing and distribution programs that lawfully avoid regulation as a franchise. She advises clients on franchise administration and compliance with franchise sales and relationship laws.

For more than 30 years, Tanja has worked with clients across a wide range of industries, including foodservice, hospitality, fitness, food & beverage, retail, sports training, home maintenance, property restoration and cleaning, vehicle rental, moving and junk disposal, financial services, personal care services, and educational services. Clients appreciate her pragmatic and creative approach, reflecting her previous experience litigating and arbitrating franchise disputes and as a small business owner.