We know that hospitality rarely stands still - and both leisure and business travel can present as many challenges as they do opportunities, with changing demographics and travel patterns, dynamic changes in hotel supply, and unexpected external pressures on demand. In a highly competitive industry, you need a dedicated legal team that can match your flexibility, speed and enthusiasm.
Our attorneys have worked as in-house counsel at the world’s leading hotel ownership, management and branding companies, so we’ve seen the hospitality world from your side. In-depth industry knowledge is vital to the legal services we can provide for you, and our attorneys are thought leaders in the industry. For example, two of our team members authored Hotel Law, a leading treatise, and our lawyers are active members of key legal and professional associations, bar association sections and committees.
We’re a truly international law firm, with teams of lawyers on every continent, and we work with major hotel and resort owners, operators, managers, developers, franchisors and lenders across all major markets. We bring in the cross-disciplinary experience of our extensive real estate, construction, finance, corporate, tax, and intellectual property and litigation teams to help you meet your global business objectives.
Our lawyers are experienced in all aspects of hospitality law. Our recent experience includes advising:
- an international hotel operating company and brand owner in the negotiation of management contracts for a portfolio of more than 80 hotel properties across the United States
- an international hotel operating company and brand owner in the development of its newest brand, a chain of boutique hotels
- the special servicer in the workout of a $1.2 billion securitized mortgage loan, secured by a large portfolio of luxury hotels located in the United States and the Caribbean
- a construction manager in state and federal litigation and related arbitrations in a complex, protracted dispute with the owner of a major casino resort, hotel and retail project, which achieved the largest commercial verdict to that date in the state of Nevada
- the developer of a multi-hotel, mixed-use resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, to negotiate hotel operating agreements, infrastructure contracts, marina management contracts, golf course management contracts and related agreements
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