Laura Warf

Laura Warf’s practice focuses on providing transactional advice and strategy to food and beverage brands, restaurants, and other consumer companies, particularly through periods of transformational growth and change. Laura’s experience representing companies through strategic growth investments and mergers and acquisitions transactions informs and supports her general counsel work with clients at earlier stages of development. This confluence of clients allows Laura to provide efficient, pragmatic, and precise advice to private companies (and their investors) at all stages of growth. Laura’s practice also includes advising clients on the CARES Act’s debt relief provisions and other COVID-19 related challenges and opportunities.

Laura’s experience also includes the following specialties, which uniquely position her to support clients in the food, beverage, and restaurant industries as well as other consumer-facing brands: intellectual property licensing and supply chain matters, particularly to encourage brand value and integrity; transactions where both intellectual property rights and tangible assets (including real estate) play prominent roles, such as complex multi-unit franchise acquisitions and estate winery and vineyard acquisitions; and transaction structuring and advice to mitigate alcohol regulatory hurdles and delays.