Jasmine Leilani Moy

Always wanted to start your own business, but don't know where to begin? Have a bustling first kitchen, but feel too overwhelmed to even think about growth? Successful restaurateur who wants to expand into the hotel space?

Jasmine Moy  works solely with the Restaurant and Food & Beverage industries and represents some of the most accomplished chefs and restaurateurs in the country.

Her practice includes counseling established chefs, restaurateurs, real estate developers, hoteliers, and food and beverage businesses; advising up-and-coming chefs and restaurateurs; and working with entrepreneurs seeking to start their own businesses.

Ms. Moy serves as counsel for many of her clients, handling start-up funding, business formation and organizational matters; real estate negotiations, asset and business purchase transactions; brand licensing transactions, drafting management and consulting agreements, and basic consultations on intellectual property issues involving trademarks and trade dress. She employs her background and training in complex business litigation to counsel her clients through any and all business disputes.

In counseling small to large businesses in the Restaurant, and Food and Beverage Industry, Ms. Moy often guides clients through the nascent stages of business start-up, including implementing internal structures and strategic partnerships. She then acts as outside general counsel to clients by advising them on day-to-day issues, complex financial and operational transactional matters.

In addition to her legal work in the Hospitality industry, Ms. Moy is offers consulting services, where she provides property owners and developers around the world with bespoke food and beverage curating services. She identifies, and engages the most well-suited restaurant concept and operator for each client, facilitating successful, long-term relationships between property owners and their food and beverage operators, through comprehensive counseling regarding the most appropriate deal structures which meet each client's needs.

Ms. Moy is also a writer and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Time Out New York and recently published an essay as part of an anthology on mixed-race women in America with Inanna Publications.

Ms. Moy is also a licensed real estate broker in the state of New York.

Clients include: Isaac Toups, Resto/Cannibal restaurant group, Deuki Hong, Sarah Simmons, Akhtar Nawab, Melissa Weller, Snowdays, Robert Newton, Patrick Connolly, David Meyers, Mira Sushi and Kimoto restaurant group, Chris Cipollone and Piora, Mimi Cheng's Dumplings, Chris Jaeckle, Nick Morgenstern, Big Gay Ice Cream, New York Giants, Joshua Smookler, Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Company, Lofted Coffee Roasters, Five Leaves, Nights & Weekends, Andrea Reusing, Joe Campanale, Butcher & Bee Charleston, Nourish Kitchen, BeccaPR, Virgin Hotels, AKA Hotels, Park South Hotel, and PlanDoSee (Sushi Azabu, New York and Neuehouse, Los Angeles).