Leisure & Hospitality
USA Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 4
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Provided by Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley’s Hospitality & Leisure attorneys use a multidisciplinary approach to delivering industry-specific services related to golf courses, clubs, hotels and restaurants, resorts, and timeshare/fractional ownership and timeshare properties.
In the hospitality business, providing your guests and customers with world-class service is always the goal. We share your focus on client satisfaction, which has earned us recognition for our legal skills and client services. For our clients, we work side-by-side with them through the entire life cycle of their asset, negotiating a full range of agreements and helping them realize and protect the value of their assets and brands.
Our lawyers have served as industry lobbyists, drafted legislation on behalf of the industry, and currently hold leadership positions for relevant committees on several trade associations. This experience is utilized to ensure the highest quality of legal assistance with day-to-day operational issues, as well as your most difficult legal challenges.
We understand that the hospitality industry has multiple components and we have organized our practice to address all facets of the industry. As you would expect from a large international law firm, our multidisciplinary team of attorneys is your single source for answers to any of your most pressing legal issues.
Chambers Review
Foley & Lardner has an experienced team that focuses on the hotel and resort industry, alongside wider capabilities in the restaurant, food and beverage space. The team works across the spectrum of hospitality matters, from real estate and corporate transactions through to management agreements and brand protection issues. Drawing on a firm-wide pool of expertise, its practitioners advise on wider areas such as labor, tax and mezzanine financing.
Work Highlights
- Foley & Lardner served as lead timeshare counsel to Hilton Grand Vacations on its definitive agreement to acquire Bluegreen Vacations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team has a very good grasp of complex business and legal matters. The practitioners are extraordinarily timely in their work product and responses."
"Foley has expertise across its firm and has capabilities to handle a broad spectrum of legal matters."
"The lawyers are extremely responsive, to the point and dependable."
"The team has a very good grasp of complex business and legal matters. The practitioners are extraordinarily timely in their work product and responses."
"Foley has expertise across its firm and has capabilities to handle a broad spectrum of legal matters."
"The lawyers are extremely responsive, to the point and dependable."
Notable Practitioners
Clifford Risman cochairs the hospitality practice. He has wide-ranging experience within the hospitality sector, including management agreements and large-scale transactions.
"Clifford is a very experienced and competent lawyer who provides great legal and business advice."