International Distribution Institute

The International Distribution Institute (IDI) is an association founded in 2004 by Prof. Fabio Bortolotti, Prof. Didier Ferrier, Klaus Meyer Swantee, Erwin Gärtner and Silvia Bortolotti and which deals with distribution law around the world.

The members of the Association are lawyers, internal counsels, consultants and businesspeople, who share an interest in cross-border distribution of products and services (i.e. commercial agency, exclusive and selective distribution, franchising, occasional intermediaries etc..).
IDI provides information and documents that can be used when creating, organizing and managing distribution networks around the world. Particularly, international model contracts, texts of laws, country reports, national and European case-law are available on the website. 

Every year, the IDI organizes a Conference on current topics relating to distribution, franchising and commercial agency, which is attended by lawyers and legal counsels from all over the world.