Hospitality industry veteran Dr. Donald W. Wise is pleased to announce that the Global Hospitality Industry practice of Johnson Capital is sponsoring or speaking at all of the major hospitality events for the balance of  2008 including:

• Platinum Sponsor where we just spoke at the American Lodging Investment Summit 2008 � Los Angeles � �The Mixed-Use Project: With Complex Legal, Finance, and Operating Issues to deal with, what works best and why?� 

• Speaking at the Developing & Financing Hotel Waterpark Resort Workshop - Kalahari Waterpark Resort & Convention Center, Sandusky, OH

• Sponsoring and Moderating at the JMBM Hotel Developers Conference 2008 � Las Vegas

• Speaking at the Real Estate Media RealShare Hotel Investment Conference 2008 � New York

• Sponsoring and speaking at the JMBM Meet the Money Conference 2008 - Los Angeles

• Platinum Sponsor and speaking at the NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference 2008 � New  York

• Speaking at the Midwest Lodging Investors Summit � Chicago

• Sponsoring and speaking at the Fourteenth Annual The Lodging Conference 2008 � Phoenix

• Speaking at the Sixth Annual International Hotel Conference 2008 � Rome

The Johnson Capital Global Hospitality Industry investment banking practice provides high touch investment advisory, investment banking, transactional (brokerage) services, and financing placement of both debt and equity in the $10,000,000 to $300,000,000 range. The Johnson Capital Express hospitality loan program lends between $1 million and $5 million, but on a case-by-case basis, will lend up to $10 million. These services are primarily focused on the Hilton Garden Inn, Hyatt Place, Cambia Suites, Marriott Springhill Suites, and Holiday Inn Express construction and acquisition/refinance debt placement, up through the upscale, luxury and boutique market tiers of domestic and International hotels, resorts, gaming, condominium-hotels, and timeshare, fractional and mixed-use projects that have a lodging component to include:

• Debt placement � First mortgage, construction, subordinated/mezzanine debt, preferred equity financing for acquisition and refinance of single-asset and portfolio transactions, and debtor in possession;
• Equity placement � New construction, renovation, recapitalization;
• Corporate real estate services � Disposition of distressed asset and loan portfolios and/or loan sales to non-performing loans;
• Bridge loans � Purchasing and participating in the placement of bridge loans of existing assets, and raw entitled land, on a case-by-case basis;
• Advisory services � Preparation of sophisticated financial and/or market analysis of property, including valuations, hold versus sell analysis, feasibility studies, investment underwriting, transactional due diligence, and partnership restructuring and dissolutions; 
• Investment services � Asset management, development and acquisition services to hotel real estate investors requiring third-party expertise; 
• Distressed and REO hotels � representing numerous private equity funds seeking to acquire distressed and �broken� hotels;
• Distressed commercial paper � representing numerous hedge funds seeking to acquire distressed and �broken�  hotel debt; and
• Brokerage intermediary services � existing assets, sites, and portfolios.

Dr. Donald W. Wise
Global Hospitality Industry, Managing Partner
Johnson Capital
Hospitality and Leisure Real Estate Investment Banking
1436 Second Street, #310
Napa, California 94559
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