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GLOBAL HOSPITALITY GROUP
The hospitality attorneys in the Global Hospitality Group® of
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell comprise the premier hospitality
practice in a full-service law firm, and the most experienced legal and
advisory team in the industry. Our team of 50 seasoned hotel lawyers
has more than $60 billion in hotel transactions experience, involving
more than 1,300 properties located around the globe providing one of
the most extensive virtual data bases of market terms for deals and
financings.
The hospitality lawyers of our team are not just great hotel
lawyers—we are also hospitality consultants and business advisors,
dealmakers and facilitators of the flow of capital. We help our clients
find the right operator, joint venture partner or capital provider. We
know who to call and how to reach them.
We advise on what are “market” terms and how to reach or
exceed them. We help define key business goals, assemble the right
team, develop strategies to optimize value and then get the deal done.
Our lodging and hospitality lawyers represent hotel owners,
developers and lenders. Our clients rely on us for:
- Assembling the right team. Because our
hotel lawyers know and have worked with all the major players in the
industry, if there is a hole in your team, we can help you fill it
- Getting the right hotel operator. We don't
just review hotel management agreements, we help you get the right
operator and the optimal terms. We lead you through an interactive
process that identifies the best possible operators for the property,
sell the strongest attributes of your project, connect with the pivotal
people at management companies, and guide the process of negotiating
optimal terms to secure a fair management
agreement
- Connecting with the right brand. Branded
management is not for everyone. When you want to self manage or hire
independent operators, we can help you determine an optimal brand for
your property and negotiate the right terms
- Taking care of management agreements.
Building on the practical experience gained from more than 1,000
management contracts, we will help you negotiate, renegotiate,
litigate, arbitrate—or terminate hotel management agreements
- Crafting relevant solutions and creating value in
development, acquisition and sale agreements. Our $60 billion
of experience means that we have seen just about everything, and we
likely have a rich choice of options to solve your problem. We know the
market and market terms
- Providing access to hotel finance. For
nearly 20 years, our hospitality attorneys have produced a major annual
hotel
finance conference called “Meet the Money®,” which sustains and
enhances the role of the Global Hospitality Group® as a gateway to
hotel finance for our clients. In 2007 alone, we helped connect clients
to more than $400 million in debt and equity financing
- Developing complex joint venture and entity
structures. Because we have represented both the providers of
capital to joint ventures and the operating partner, we know the
players and their expectations. We are often on the leading edge of
defining market terms, and consult with clients on what these terms
mean in the context of their business goals and opportunities
- Helping clients effectively manage their workforce.
Labor is one of the largest controllable expenses at most hotels and
resorts. We know the players at UNITE-HERE and SEIU union locals and
how they often trip up and when they bluster. We know the troubled
spots in the hotel environment for labor and employment
issues
Our strengths include labor-management relations such as union
prevention, collective bargaining for single, as well as multi-employer
bargaining units, neutrality agreements, advising on union corporate
campaigns and defense of unfair labor practice charges before the NLRB.
We implement preventive management strategies, such as executive
training, arbitration enforcement and policies and procedures. And we
defend administrative and litigation claims, such as employee claims of
sexual harassment and discrimination.
Our hotel lawyers know the hospitality business from every
angle, and we provide our clients with creative options and practical
solutions, for individual properties to billion-dollar portfolios that
involve:
- Hotels
- Resorts
- Condo hotels and hotel condos
- Hotel-enhanced mixed-use
- Restaurants, spas and other amenities
- Golf, tennis and entertainment-related facilities
- Fractionals and timeshares
- Hotel
workouts, receiverships and bankruptcies
The Global Hospitality Group® is also brought in on
signature stadiums and arenas, as well as on assisted living facilities.
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