Rebekah Prince has significant experience negotiating celebrity endorsement transactions as well as joint ventures and license agreements in the sports, restaurant and hospitality, media and entertainment, health and fitness, and consumer products industries.
Ms. Prince notably provides her clients—a growing number of which are current and former professional athletes—with legal advice traditionally offered to family offices and implements corporate governance and structure to growing individual brands. She works both with younger players navigating the beginning of a professional career, as well as current and retired players who are transitioning from being known as solely as athletes into successful business owners and investors.
Ms. Prince also has long-standing experience representing buyers, sellers and investment advisers in connection with financings and mergers and acquisitions of private and public companies. She has been involved in the structuring and closing of multimillion-dollar acquisitions of franchise systems and large-scale portfolio purchases and sales of franchised and company-operated outlets. Ms. Prince regularly advises clients on the structuring of domestic and international franchise ventures, including the registration, disclosure and development of franchise systems.
Ms. Prince is a frequent author and has written chapters for Fundamentals of Franchising and Mergers and Acquisitions of Franchise Companies.
Ms. Prince is a 2002 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and a graduate of Washington & Lee University.
Admissions
- California
Education
- University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 2002
- Washington & Lee University, B.S., 1996
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2023-present - Blank Rome LLP
- Partner, 2022-2023 - Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Partner, 2014-2022 - The Eisner Firm
- Partner, 2011-2014 - Snell & Wilmer LLP
- Senior Associate, 2008-2011
Honors and Awards
- Listed in Who’s Who Legal: Franchising 2024
- Named to the Franchise Times “Legal Eagles,” 2024