Get legal help with your Franchise Disclosure Register listing

This service is usually suited to franchisors who need help preparing a new register entry, updating an existing disclosure record, or checking whether their franchise documents support the information being disclosed. It is particularly useful where the issue is not limited to one agreement or one data point. For example, your franchise agreement, disclosure material, operations documents and network practices may not line up cleanly. In that situation, legal review can help identify what should be corrected first before information is uploaded or relied on for disclosure purposes.

Common issues include inconsistent information across franchise agreements and disclosure material, outdated network details, unclear descriptions of fees or support, and uncertainty about what belongs on the register versus in supporting documents. Sometimes the register process exposes a wider franchising problem, such as documents that no longer reflect how the system actually operates. The aim is to give you a clearer legal framework for the issue, with final risk settings depending on your operating model and follow-through. The legal position can depend on how your franchise network operates in practice and whether the underlying documents are current.

The main difference is breadth. A narrower service may only review one agreement, answer a specific franchising question, or comment on a single issue. This service is broader because the register task often depends on several documents and business practices lining up at the same time. That means we look at the disclosure exercise in context, rather than treating it as a standalone formality. If your only concern is one clause, one manual section or one isolated update, a more limited review may be more suitable and more cost effective.

This service covers legal preparation and review of the materials connected with the Franchise Disclosure Register. Whether a filing step, portal submission or regulator-facing process is required can depend on how the register is operating at the time and what stage your franchise network is at. Ongoing representation, regulator correspondence and follow-up handling are not included unless specifically scoped in. If your matter involves regulator questions, extra evidence requests or a broader compliance concern, we can outline the next legal steps and whether additional support would be worthwhile.

The fixed-fee includes legal support connected with the register task, such as a consultation with a franchising lawyer, review of the franchise documents you provide, and help preparing or refining the disclosure materials needed for the register. We can flag gaps, inconsistencies and wording issues that may affect the accuracy of the entry. In practical terms, useful documents often include your franchise agreement, disclosure document, operations manual extracts and any recent update material. Wider document rewrites, ongoing representation and tax advice are outside the standard scope unless separately added.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Franchise Disclosure Register service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.