We're excited to welcome Zach to the Spadea Lignana team!
Before joining our firm, Zach built a diverse legal practice advising businesses on transactional, operational, and corporate matters. His practical, business-minded approach is centered on understanding each client's long-term goals and helping them make smart legal decisions that support sustainable growth.
At Spadea Lignana, Zach will work with emerging and established franchisors on franchise development, Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs), franchise agreements, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and the legal strategies that help franchise systems grow with confidence.
We're thrilled to have Zach on board and look forward to the experience, insight, and dedication he brings to our clients and our team.
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Our national team just got stronger. We're pleased to welcome Zachary Bottom as a franchise attorney, joining Javier Esteve as we grow our presence in Cincinnati and beyond our East Coast roots.
Zach brings a background in franchise and business law, corporate transactions, and strategic legal counseling. He'll be working with franchisors across the country on FDDs, franchise agreements, and regulatory compliance.
"Zach is an excellent addition to our team," said Tom Spadea, Founding Partner. "He shares our passion for helping founders build successful franchise systems."
Zach shared that he's proud to join our team and excited to help grow our reputation as a national leader in franchise law.
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The FDD and the Franchise Agreement are both essential parts of the franchise process, but they do completely different things.
A lot of prospective franchisees spend weeks reading through the FDD and give the Franchise Agreement a quick scan at the end. That's an easy mistake to make. The FDD tells you about the opportunity. The Franchise Agreement is what actually governs your relationship with the franchisor once you sign.
If a dispute ever comes up down the road, it's the Franchise Agreement that matters. Knowing what's in it before you sign is one of the most important steps in the whole process.
We broke down the key differences here: f.mtr.cool/SAPJYOUMKA
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Most franchisors think about their franchise documents from one perspective. The franchisee prospect. But there are actually two other audiences reading those same documents, and one of them could determine how much your entire system is worth one day.
Tom Spadea breaks down the three audiences every franchisor needs to keep in mind when building out their franchise documents, and why the third one might be the most important of all.
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250 Years of Independence. Same Entrepreneurial Spirit.
This 4th of July marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And while we celebrate the birth of a nation, it's worth looking at where its entrepreneurial spirit actually took root.
Benjamin Franklin is remembered as a Founding Father. But decades before 1776, he was already running a business model that looks strikingly familiar today.
Starting in the 1730s, Franklin began partnering with printers across the colonies. He supplied the press, the type, and the capital. His partners ran the shops. In return, Franklin typically took a share of the profits, often around a third, over a set term, commonly six years. He repeated this model again and again, building a network of print shops from Philadelphia to the Carolinas. Historians and franchise scholars widely point to this as one of the earliest franchise-style systems in American history.
Nearly 300 years later, the model hasn't changed much. Someone with drive builds something of their own, using a system that already works. That's franchising. And it's been woven into the American economy since before "American" was even a fully formed idea.
So here's to every franchisor and franchisee out there, building something that's truly theirs. Independence looks different in 2026 than it did in 1776. But the spirit behind it? Still the same.
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