Firm Information: Ten Bank Street, Suite 540 White Plains, NY 10606 Web Site: www.pitlaw.com Tel: (914) 681-0100 Fax: (914) 682-7501 Contact: Mr. Thomas M. Pitegoff Email: pitegoff@pitlaw.com Attorney Information: Ten Bank Street, Suite 540 White Plains, NY 10606 Tel: (914) 681-0100 Fax: (914) 682-7501 Email: pitegoff@pitlaw.com

Firm Profile: A recognized, high quality business law boutique, Pitegoff Law Office offers corporate counsel services to companies of all sizes, locally and internationally. The firm handles business transactions, drafts and negotiates contracts, advises on intellectual property law matters and assists clients in their regulatory compliance. The firm has a strong franchise law practice, representing both franchisors and franchisees and advising companies on whether particular license or distribution arrangements constitute franchises. The firm also has a strong computer and Internet law practice.

Firm Background:

In Business Since: 1999, and long before that in other configurations

Serving the Franchising Community Since: Since Inception

% of Total Billable Hours Billed to Clients in the Franchising Industry: 33%

Full-time Employees: 1 paralegal

Full-time Professionals: 2 attorneys

Major Franchising Clients in Past 3 Years: We represent several U.S. and foreign franchisors as well as franchisees of a number of different franchise brands.

Attorney Profile: General business law, with a focus on computers and technology, franchising and international business. Services include contract drafting and negotiation, corporate transactions, intellectual property counseling, and resolving disputes before they escalate into litigation. Work includes, for franchisors, preparing franchise agreements and franchise offering circulars, and handling franchise filings and regulatory compliance. For franchisees, our work includes counseling franchisees their franchise purchases and in their corporate matters. We negotiate franchise agreements both on behalf of franchisors and franchisees, and we advise others on the question of whether particular arrangements constitute franchises.

Year Admitted to the Bar: 1977

Licensed to Practice in: New York

Education/Honors: Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. Listed in all editions of The International Who’s Who of Franchise Lawyers.

Professional Associations/Memberships: Member of the executive committee of the NY State Bar Association’s Business Law Section. Franchise mediator and ICANN arbitrator for domain name disputes through the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. Served in various leadership capacities in the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) and as a former member of the Governing Committee of the ABA’s Forum on Franchising.

Publications: Open Source, Open World: New Possibilities for Computer Software (BUSINESS LAW TODAY, American Bar Association, Sept./Oct. 2001); The Inadvertent CyberFranchisor (CYBERSPACE LAWYER April 1998); Choice of Law in Franchise Relationships (FRANCHISE LAW JOURNAL, American Bar Association, Spring 1995); Franchise Relationship Laws: A Minefield for Franchisors (BUSINESS LAWYER, American Bar Association, Nov. 1989) (reprinted in the American Bar Association’s book, BUILDING FRANCHISE RELATIONSHIPS (1996, 2004); Ways to Avoid Being a Franchise (FRANCHISE LAW JOURNAL, American Bar Association, Fall 1992); Plus a number of papers prepared in conjunction with franchise law conferences.

Provide Legal Services in U.S.: Yes, but my practice focuses on the New York metropolitan area.

Provide Legal Services in Canada: Yes, with the assistance of Canadian counsel.

Provide Legal Services Internationally: I work with foreign counsel anywhere that U.S. companies are permitted to do business.

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