Fitness Industry Financial Crunch Creates Role for Top Lawyer

Aug. 5, 2020, 8:45 AM UTC

A leading Crunch Fitness franchisee has recruited a lawyer with long-standing ties in the workout space as it seeks to capitalize on the struggles of competitors.

CR Fitness Holdings LLC, a Brandon, Fla.-based company backed by private equity firm North Castle Partners LLC, recently hired Christy Stross as its first chief legal officer.

Stross, the daughter of Planet Fitness creator Rick Berks, was most recently the top in-house lawyer and director of real estate development at YouFit Health Clubs LLC, a Florida-based company started by Berks that like a number of other gym chains is struggling in the economic fallout ...

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