Hospitality & Leisure

A dedicated and experienced Wherever you are in the life cycle, we can help Hospitality & leisure team in Paris Property/ Planning, Our lawyers have an extensive hospitality and Hotel Environmental Real Estate Acquisition & Construction Finance leisure practice. Our on-the-ground presence and knowledge of local culture, business and networks Dispute IPOs and REITs are key to our commitment to client service and Resolution ability to solve the most complex and demanding General legal and business challenge in the hospitality and Corporate/ Hotel Debt Private Equity Operations Restructuring leisure industry. & International & Appointment & Insolvency M&A of Operators Advising a wide range of clients Acquisition and Development Mayer Brown’s broad market experience in Hospitality and Leisure enables us to provide a Real Estate Finance comprehensive legal services to maximize value Operations and Appointment of Operators flexibility and opportunities to a wide range of clients such as: Planning, Environmental & Construction • owners • financiers Dispute Resolution • hotels • other prominent Tax • developers participants in the hotel and leisure • serviced apartment Benefiting from our distinctive industry worldwide • operators approach We offer a global platform of more than 100 Covering the full cycle of hotel lawyers from across our worldwide offices to deliver projects an integrated range of legal services to investors on complex and cross-border hospitality and leisure Representing the full spectrum of issues that can transactions. arise during the acquisition, development, construction, financing, pre and post-opening We regularly advise on and negotiate hotel preparation, management and disposal of management agreements, covering most of the hospitality and leisure real estate assets, our team major hotel and lodging chains and have extensive is familiar with such transactions from all angles and experience having worked on projects involving know how they work from the inside out, thus around 50 brands. We also work with major adding value for our clients. gaming companies in deploying strategies to manage casinos (more recently of distressed respectively in 2012 and 2013, including real gaming companies), including preparation of estate aspects, financing and tax structuring management agreements. as well as the negotiation of the hotel management agreement with Accor An outstanding track record • Reignwood. Advised Reignwood in the negotiation of the management agreement Over the past decade, our lawyers have worked on with Four Seasons in the context of a hospitality and leisure matters representing our conversion of a building into a luxury hotel and clients in transactions involving some of the world’s residence at 10 Trinity Square in London best brands for French and foreign investment funds: • The Ascott Residence Trust. Advised the • Westmont Hospitality. Advised Westmont Ascott Group on the acquisition of the real Hospitality in connection with the acquisition of estate portfolio of Citadines Apart’Hôtels AC Marriott Hotel (Relais Segur) at Le Bourget, in , , , and the France . • Hotel du Palais. Advised the owners in • Lone Star. Advised the private equity fund connection with the negotiation of a hotel Lone Star on the acquisition of the Alliance management agreement with Hyatt for Hotel Hotel Group from Blackstone, as well as on its du Palais in sale to LFPI • Alpine Grove Partners LLP. Advice on private • Consortium of banks. Advising a consortium equity aspects to Alpine Grove (formerly Grove of banks on the financing required for the International Partners) for their hospitality buyout by FDM Management of a portfolio of platforms: Ishin Hospitality in held by 9 hotels, including the emblematic Park Inn Alpine Grove and Westmont Hospitality and, Alexanderplatz and Westin Grand in Berlin, in Europe, to Event Hospitality held in joint for the refinancing of the group’s existing debt venture with Anders Braks and, in particular, and the implementation of a refurbishment advice in the context of the sale of the program Cerratani Hotel in Florence, of the Pullman • KKR. Advising KKR on the implementation of Hotel in Munich and, earlier, of the Reichshof the financing and collateral granted for the Hamburg, Curio Collection by Hilton acquisition and restructuring of two Algonqin • Bora Bora Nui. Advised the owners on hotels located in Brussels the negotiation of the hotel management agreement with Hilton for the luxury Conrad Your main contacts in the team Bora Bora Nui hotel, located in • Eurazeo. Advised the investment fund Eurazeo Andrew Armfelt on the acquisition of 85 hotels located in 8 E: [email protected] countries from Accor and other real estate T: +33 1 53 53 18 59 investment funds such as Hotelier France, Invesco, Foncière des murs, including advice on corporate, real estate and structuring aspects • Almus Capital and Mount Kellett. Advised Erwan Heurtel Almus Capital and Mount Kellett in the context E: [email protected] of the sale of two luxury hotels in Paris, Sofitel Mayer Brown is a distinctively global law firm, uniquely positioned to advise the world’s leading companiesT: and +33 financial 1 53 institutions 53 43 42 on their most complexLe Faubourgdeals and disputes. and With Le extensiveMeridien reach Porte across fourMaillot, continents, we are the only integrated law firm in the world with approximately 200 lawyers in each of the world’s three largest financial centers—New York, London and Hong Kong—the backbone of the global economy. We have deep experienceacquired in high-stakes with thelitigation assistance and complex of transacti Mayerons Brown across industry sectors, including our signature strength, the global financial services industry. 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