Overview
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell attorneys represent prominent national and international hotel, resort, time-share, restaurant and hospitality companies and firms. We counsel hospitality clients on financing, business combinations, acquisitions and dispositions and general corporate matters. Our representation of hotel and lodging companies includes the following:
- Acquisition and disposition of hotel properties, entities and brands
- Hotel development and renovation
- Negotiation of hotel management agreements
- Construction contracts and litigation
- Technical services agreements
- Group and convention contracts, marketing agreements, food and beverage consulting agreements and liquor license operating agreements
- Purchasing agreements
- Contracts with national and international vendors for system-wide goods and services
- Licensing, franchising and intellectual property arrangements
- Negotiation of specialized contracting arrangements with providers of reservations systems and information services
- Insurance arrangements and related matters
- Capital funding, asset, equity and merger transactions, public and private
- Representation of real estate investment trusts in hotel property acquisitions and dispositions
- Tax exempt bond financing
- Sale leaseback arrangements
- Hotel investment/development programs with joint venture partners
- Credit facilities for acquisition programs, construction and operations
- Labor, employment and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance
- Condominium hotel structuring and mixed use development
Representative transactions include the initial public offering of equity and debt securities for an international hotel corporation; the acquisition of 27 hotel properties located throughout the United States by a pension advisor; the acquisition, through a consensual bankruptcy, of 17 hotels located throughout the United States by an affiliate of a national investment bank; the acquisition of a portfolio of 17 hotels, together with the associated brand and franchise operations; the sale of a portfolio consisting of 19 hotels located in eight states; the sale of a 1,300 acre New England resort; and the negotiation of technical services and management agreements relating to luxury condominium hotel developments in south Florida and the Caribbean.