Leisure & Hospitality
USA Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 3
About
Provided by Akerman LLP
Akerman’s national Hospitality Sector Team provides comprehensive, 360-degree legal counsel to a broad range of hospitality sector clients. The team of seasoned lawyers has a thorough understanding of the hospitality business and its inherent risks, challenges, and emerging opportunities. By leveraging their wealth of sector experience, in-depth market knowledge, and industry-specific insights, they help clients address challenges as well as new opportunities with fresh ideas and creative solutions.
The team advises owners and developers of hotels, resorts, and mixed-use developments throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world. From project conception to operations and disposition, their work includes complex equity and debt transactions, construction issues, regulatory compliance, technology and cyber security matters, dispute resolution, labor and employment, immigration, state and local tax, franchising, licensing and branding issues, and restructuring.
Service Offerings:
- Hotel and resort acquisition, sale, and development
- Operational matters
- Regulatory compliance
- Dispute resolution
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
Chambers Review
Akerman has an impressive hospitality outfit that is adept at handling a broad manner of transactional and contentious work on behalf of hotel owners, developers and investors. The team represents clients in corporate and real estate transactions, with noted capability in cross-border matters.
Work Highlights
- Akerman advised Pegasus Capital Advisors on the formation of a joint venture and the provision of gap debt financing, for the development of mixed-use eco-resorts and the provision of various types of debt and equity capital in connection with two projects.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Akerman is an outstanding firm with a strong focus on hospitality."
"It is a highly effective firm, with a team that can handle frustrating and complex litigation."
"Akerman is an outstanding firm with a strong focus on hospitality."
"It is a highly effective firm, with a team that can handle frustrating and complex litigation."
Notable Practitioners
Andrew Robins is highly sought after to provide counsel on due diligence, hotel management agreements and M&A, among other issues.
"Andrew is knowledgeable."
"He's a smart and great lawyer."
Cochair of the hospitality sector team Joshua Bernstein is developing an impressive practice which sees him frequently advise on dispute resolution in the hospitality industry.
"Joshua genuinely cares about the outcome for the client."