Firms to advise fast-food chain company

Clyde & Co and Eversheds will advise Yum! Brands, the company behind Pizza Hut and KFC, for the first time having been appointed as part of a new eight-firm panel in the UK.

The firms will be joined on the panel by HowardKennedyFsi, Squire Sanders and Collins Dryland & Thorowgood, which will advise on real estate work; Solihull-based Whiting & Purches took the mandate to advise on health and safety and food; Leeds-based Woods Whur will advise on licensing work after it acted for KFC for the first time last year; Wright Hassell will advise on immigration matters; and Burness Paull has been appointed for Scotland.

Eversheds will provide real estate and employment advice while Clyde & Co has been appointed to advise on general commercial issues and litigation.