Kendal Tyre is a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Washington, D.C. office and co-leader of the firm’s Franchise team.

With over 25 years of experience, Kendal counsels companies expanding through master franchising, area development franchising, international franchising, management contracts, joint venture agreements, licensing agreements and product distribution arrangements throughout the world. He also has extensive experience structuring, negotiating and enforcing domestic and international franchise, license, distribution and acquisition agreements.

Kendal is a frequent contributor to franchise publications and a frequent speaker at franchise programs held by the American Bar Association’s Forum on Franchising and the International Franchise Association.

Kendal is also the executive director of the LexNoir Foundation and serves as an editor and author for the “Franchising In” international book series published by the LexNoir Foundation. His recent books include International Franchising 2016: Legal and Business Considerations, a 600-page publication that covers 41 countries and was a collaboration of over 60 legal practitioners across the globe.

Kendal has been appointed to serve in his second term as a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa (TACA), which is a U.S. federal advisory committee that advises the U.S. government on U.S. trade policy in Africa.

Kendal received his J.D. from University of Minnesota Law School where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Inequality. He received his B.A., with honors, from Brown University.