LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rich Reinis,
a corporate strategist and litigator with a unique in-house
business perspective, has joined Thompson Coburn's Los Angeles office as a partner.
Rich has received national attention for founding the company
that first brought Krispy Kreme Doughnuts to Southern California in 1999. As reported this
month by The American Lawyer, Rich served as chairman and general
counsel of an exclusive Krispy Kreme franchise after a decades-long
legal career in Los Angeles,
including work at Munger, Tolles, Hills & Rickershauser and as
a general counsel for three different companies.
By 2004, Rich's company employed 1,400 workers in 31 restaurants
and delivered fresh doughnuts to 800 grocery stores, making it the
largest Krispy Kreme franchisee in the
United States. When after rapid initial growth Krispy Kreme
sales faltered, Rich restructured the entire business. The company
successfully emerged from Chapter 11 and went on to survive and
thrive. The story has been the subject of articles in the Wall
Street Journal and the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
"He's had experiences that a lot of clients go through, which
makes him an exceptional counselor," Thompson Coburn Chairman
Tom Minogue told The American Lawyer. "We think that people
who have been tested at difficult times offer real wisdom and
perspective to people faced with similar circumstances and trying
to avoid those circumstances."
Rich turned his experiences into a popular management
presentation about how business executives make decisions under the
pressures of expansion and sudden, extreme contraction. As a
speaker at national conventions, the Young Presidents'
Organization, and Vistage International, he has given this
colorful, real-life case study to companies and corporate
executives across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
At Thompson Coburn, Rich will continue his representation of
companies across a diverse range of industries, including
restaurant, franchising, clothing apparel, energy, entertainment,
and real estate companies. Rich also counsels clients on complex
commercial transactions, restructuring, trade secrets litigation,
probate litigation matters, franchise and licensing disputes,
minority interest litigation, and trademark and copyright
litigation.
Rich's arrival at Thompson Coburn also reunites him with his
brother Mitch Reinis, with whom he once operated a boutique
firm focusing on the apparel industry.
Rich earned his law degree from the University of Southern California (where he wrote
for the law review and served as chairman of the schools moot court
competition), and his bachelor's from Princeton University, where he was a starting
tackle on Princeton's last
undefeated team and selected as first-team All-Ivy League.
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SOURCE Thompson Coburn, LLP