Hospitality and leisure clients rely on us for more than our real estate expertise. We know the norms, customs, and operating and practical concerns of the international hospitality industry.
Goodwin Procter has one of the leading practices dedicated to serving the hospitality and leisure industry. We’ve worked for many of the industry’s leading names on some of the largest and most complex deals over the past decade. Attorneys in our practice have handled projects in more than 40 countries, working on matters ranging from asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, corporate IPOs and M&A transactions, financings of all types, project development and structuring transactions to management and operational issues.
We have deep expertise in a wide range of hospitality and leisure assets, including:
- High-rise urban hotels
- Convention and conference centers
- Luxury destination resorts
- Golf courses and tennis clubs
- Marinas
- Condominium hotels
- Branded and serviced and mixed-use residential developments
Hospitality clients also benefit from our firm’s status as a leader in REITs and real estate capital markets. In recent years we’ve structured and executed U.S. REIT IPO and REIT M&A transactions totaling over $150 billion dollars and negotiated major corporate M&A transactions involving hospitality companies in Europe. We’ve also helped clients raise more than $60 billion through private investment funds, including the formation of investment funds that target hotels.
Hotels are operating businesses and present an array of issues that implicate a variety of legal disciplines, including labor and employment, intellectual property, tax, and litigation and dispute resolution. We draw on our collective expertise and resources to help clients navigate these challenges. This cross-disciplinary approach allows us to structure, negotiate, document and close the largest and most complex transactions.
Goodwin Procter has senior hospitality-focused lawyers in Boston, Hong Kong, London, New York and San Francisco , providing our clients with expertise across the globe.