Current Employment Position(s)

Founding MemberSenior Partner

Lawyer Overview

David J. Kaufmann is a founding member and senior partner of New York City's Kaufmann Gildin Robbins & Oppenheim LLP.

David - - partner-in-charge of Kaufmann Gildin's franchise team - - is nationally acclaimed as one of the nation's leading franchise lawyers.  No less an authority than the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that David Kaufmann is unquestionably an expert in franchise law.  The New York Times lauds David as a lawyer in New York who has represented many of the nation's top franchisors and who wrote the New York franchise disclosure law.  Crain's New York Business calls him a nationally recognized expert in franchising.  And Franchise Times recently cited David as one of franchising's superstars.  In fact, David alone is featured in The Best Lawyers in America under the heading Franchising - - New York City.

David authored the New York Franchise Act (New York's franchise statute); serves as an advisor to the organization of state and federal officials responsible for devising and coordinating franchise regulatory activity nationwide - - the NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association) Franchise Project Group; served as a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Franchise Forum; co-authored the CCH Business Franchise Guide's seminal analysis of the revised FTC Franchise Rule; served as Chair of the New York State Bar Association Franchise Law Committee; is the New York Law Journal's franchise columnist; and, authors the Franchise Practice Commentary appearing in McKinney's New York Statutes, which is routinely relied upon by federal and state courts determining franchise disputes.

David's franchise clients include: Yum! Brands, Inc. (Pizza Hut/KFC/Taco Bell/Long John Silvers/A&W); Hilton Hotels Corporation (Hilton Hotels/Embassy Suites/Doubletree Hotels/ Waldorf - Astoria); InterContinental Hotels Group plc (Holiday Inns/Inter-Continental Hotels); Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Inc. (Enterprise, National and Alamo vehicle rental networks); Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (Wyndham Hotels and Resorts/Ramada Inns/Days Inns/Howard Johnson/Super 8/Travelodge); The Trump Organization; Arby's Restaurant Group; The Museum of Modern Art; The Miss Universe Organization; Ripley's Attractions, Inc. (Ripley's Believe It Or Not/Guiness Book of World Records); Weichert Realtors; Jani-King; 1-800-MATTRESS; Wok & Roll; Gallagher's Steakhouse; and, the Grand Central Oyster Bar.

David is admitted to practice before the federal and state trial and appellate courts of New York and the United States Supreme Court, and has been admitted pro hac vice in various federal and state courts around the country.

West Practice Categories

Franchising, Litigation & Appeals, Securities Law, Contracts, Business Organizations, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1977
• U.S. Federal Court, 1977
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1976
  Doctor of Jurisprudence
• State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, 1972
  Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa

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