When the Future-Self Speaks, Amy Cheng Listens.
Amy Cheng joins us on The Franchise Woman podcast: Where Passion & Purpose Collide.Â
Amy is the founding partner at Cheng Cohen LLC and general corporate practice with emphasis on domestic and international franchise, licensing and distribution law. She shares her insight on joint employer issues facing franchisees and franchisors and potential solutions going forward. One such solution includes educating the public about franchising and how franchisees are individual business owners.
Listen in to hear about Amy’s ah ha moment many years ago where it seemed her future-self was speaking to her.
Meet Amy Cheng
Amy Cheng is the founding partner of Cheng Cohen LLC in Chicago, Illinois. Amy concentrates her practice in domestic and international commercial transactions, general corporate, and franchise, licensing and distribution law. She represents franchisors on the structuring and operation of their franchise programs through all phases of domestic and international development.
Amy has extensive experience in structuring complex franchise, licensing and distribution relationships and in regulatory compliance. Her experience includes advising clients in connection with complex issues arising from the ownership of multiple brands, non-traditional opportunities, system restructuring and brand acquisition.
Amy represents clients of all sizes, from emerging to mature companies with multi-national operations. Representative clients include leaders in the restaurant, retail, fitness and home services industries. With her broad range of experience, Amy essentially acts as general counsel to her clients, collaboratively maturing their businesses from infancy to prominence within their various industries.
Amy’s commercial transactional practice includes counseling clients on mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial relationships, strategic business alliances and joint ventures. Amy’s unique combination of corporate and franchise experience provides clients with comprehensive legal services to expand their franchise portfolio. Her experience includes representing private equity in acquiring and selling franchise companies of all sizes and in a myriad of industries.
Amy is the vice-chair of IFA’s Supplier Forum Advisory Board and a member of the Franchise Advisory Board for the Illinois Attorney General. For her work in the field of franchise law, Amy was named a “Legal Eagle” by the Franchise Times, recognized by Who’s Who Legal, Leading Lawyers, Chambers and Partners and selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers of America@ and was The Best Lawyers’ 2014 Chicago Franchise Law “Lawyer of the Year”. In 2016, Amy was bestowed with the Crystal Compass Award for outstanding leadership by the IFA’s Women’s Franchise Committee. In 2020, Amy received the Bonnie LeVine Award from the IFA, an award that recognizes women for being role models by their professional accomplishments and contributions to society.
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