Joyce G. Mazero - Lawyer in Dallas, TX

In her counsel to national and global clients in the areas of franchising,licensing, distribution, manufacturing, logistics, buying groups,cooperatives and shared services systems, Joyce Mazero provides transactional,regulatory, corporate governance and dispute resolution representation. She is apartner practicing in the Franchising Distribution, Food Beverageand Retail Consumer Products industry groups.

Joyce works withproduct and serviced-based client companies and leads them through majorinitiatives. These include financings, mergers acquisitions, registrationand disclosures, and negotiations of strategic alliances, joint ventures, anddomestic and international licensing deals. Joyce has been ranked in Band 1 forFranchising Nationwide by Chambers USA since 2008, and is recognized byChambers Global, which highlighted her «very strong sense of what ittakes to drive a business» and «well-rounded viewpoint on transactions.»

Managing risk in supply chain operations and leveraging supply chainsfor competitive advantages is a practice focus for Joyce. Her backgroundincludes extensive counsel related to distribution networks, purchasingcooperatives and groups, manufacturers, suppliers, and sales representativesystems. Joyce also advises clients on legal issues connected to non-traditionaldevelopment deals, such as with airports, military bases and universities. Thestructuring, negotiation and legal enforcement of international commercialrelationships is an additional area in which she has significant experience.

Leadership in Corporate, Industry and Civic Groups

Joyce's professional leadership spans key national andinternational professional and civic associations. She currently sits on theInternational Franchise Association's Educational Foundation Board of Trusteesand the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation's Board ofTrustees. She previously served on the Advisory Board of New York-based fashiondesign house Nina McLemore and on the Susan G. Komen for the Cure AdvocacyAlliance Board. She serves as Chair Emeritus for the Women Corporate Directors'DFW Chapter, of which she is a founding member.

A frequent nationalspeaker and writer, Joyce was an editorial advisor to the book, Franchisingfor Dummies. She is the recipient of several leadership awards from theInternational Franchise Association and served as a past Chair of the IFA'sSupplier Forum Advisory Board. Joyce has been listed for more than 20 years byThe Best Lawyers in America and has become a «Legal Eagle» mainstay inthe annual listing by Franchise Times, which inducted Joyce into itsinaugural 2013 Legal Eagles Hall of Fame.