6-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Hotels are being bought, built and financed at a dizzying pace across the U.S. and globally. This program will draw on the experience of in-house counsel with major hotel operators and lenders, hotel management executives, outside counsel, and other hospitality professionals to explain how your client or company can capitalize on many of the dynamic issues of this interdisciplinary type of practice. Panelists will discuss material issues, risk factors and winning strategies for acquiring, managing or franchising, developing and financing a hotel property, as well as current debt structures and challenging developments in employment, regulatory, branding and other areas. Among the focuses will be recent case law regarding the enforceability of long-term management contracts, cash management issues in financing transactions, and integration of branded residences and time-share programs with traditional hotel operations.  

For a vibrant look at these topics and many more, register now for this timely and unique program. Learn from the country’s leading hotel experts the practical information you need to keep pace in the field.

What You Will Learn

  • Purchase and sale agreement issues, from the buyer’s and seller’s perspectives
  • Hotel management and franchise agreement issues: cash and reserves, distributions, transfer rights, non-competition provisions and termination rights
  • Senior and mezzanine mortgage loan financing and equity investment alternatives for hotels; loan agreement negotiations and collateral documents
  • Branding issues and licenses of names and other assets or rights
  • Pre-opening services and technical services agreements
  • Recent case law on the enforcement of hotel management agreements
  • Privacy concerns with data maintenance, and other regulatory issues relating to sales and operations
  • Maryland issues regarding REIT formation and operations and hotel management, including recent developments in shareholder activism

Who Should Attend

Real estate attorneys; real estate and hotel investment bankers, lenders and brokers; real estate and hotel general counsel and senior business executives; hotel asset managers and acquisition managers, and investment advisers; and other real estate or hotel advisers and consultants.

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