Skip to main content

Rachel Schaffer Lawson

Member

Office
Email
Phone
Fax844-670-6009
    Jump to section

    Overview

    Rachel Schaffer Lawson is a Nashville, Tennessee attorney at Dickinson Wright PLLC who represents alcohol and hospitality businesses nationwide. For more than fifteen years, she has advised breweries, distilleries, restaurant groups, hotels, and hospitality brands as they scale, guiding them through the licensing, regulatory, and transactional complexities that come with multi-state and national growth.

    Rachel’s practice focuses on the legal and business issues unique to alcohol and hospitality businesses, including alcohol beverage licensing and regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, franchise law, business formation, trademark searches and registration, and contract drafting and negotiation.

    What clients are saying:

    – I talked with six attorneys before finding Rachel, and I am thankful every day that we were lucky enough to find such a perfect fit. She understands our vision as well as short and long-term strategies. If you are an entrepreneur, do yourself a favor and call her.

    – Rachel and team are the epitome of advocacy. Everything they do proves they have their clients’ best interest in mind. They fight for you to get the best possible outcome in your situation. They’re extremely responsive and great at taking a stressful situation and making it easy to understand and navigate. You want to add this team to yours!

    – As first-time small business owners, we were in dire need of someone who knew the ins and outs of creating an LLC, business licenses, trademark filing, beer permits, and liquor licenses, and navigating the necessary steps through city codes and council requirements… We are open and operating, and we could not, literally, have done it, without the cheerful guidance, patience, and knowledge of Rachel.

    Experience

    • Representing an international brewery to assist with their Federal TTB Brewers permit.
    • Serves as lead counsel to nationally distributed brand of creamed whiskey regarding COLA labelling requirements, distribution agreements nationwide, trademark issues and liquor compliance
    • Serves as lead counsel for various breweries in Tennessee regarding beer and liquor license compliance, corporate governance, trademarks and contracts
    • Serves as lead counsel for bars, restaurants, hotels, transpotainment companies, breweries, distilleries, meaderies and wineries regarding corporate governance and structure, trademarks, beer and liquor licensing and compliance
    • Assists in the acquisition and sale of various hospitality businesses
    • Serves as lead counsel for museum of whiskey located in Nashville, TN regarding 501(c) nonprofit compliance
    • Serves as lead counsel to manufacturer of guitar strings in Nashville, TN
    • Represents new and emerging brands of alcoholic beverages regarding corporate structure and governance, alcohol licensing and compliance and trademarks.

    Focus Areas

    Related News & Insights

    Publications & Presentations

    Credentials