MEET THE EXPERTS

These franchise experts know what it takes to be well prepared to invest in a business where food is front and centre.

LEGAL Corinne Attard, Holman Webb Lawyers

Corinne is a commercial lawyer with more than 25 years franchising and retail industry experience including as in-house counsel with oversight of more than 350 franchised food outlets. Named as one of the top franchise and business lawyers in Australia annually since 2014 in International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Corinne has also been included in Best Lawyers 2019 and 2020.

LEASING Phillip Chapman, Lease1

Phillip is one of Australia’s leading retail industry experts with a specialist focus on the leasing challenges and opportunities faced by tenants in the retail sector.

He is the founder and director of Lease1, an authority on retailer leasing, that provides a tenant-only representation service.

OPERATIONS Anthony Stahl and Daniel Mesiti, Boost Juice

Multi-unit, multi-award winning franchisees Anthony Stahl and Daniel Mesiti are old hands in the hospitality world. The pair have been franchisees since 2005 and have notched up more than 27 awards. But before running a number of successful Boost Juice franchises the business partners had set up and operated their own cafes.