Hospitality

Representation of clients involved in hospitality-industry investments requires more than the usual real estate skills, because the purchase or financing of a hotel or resort property is more like an investment in a “going business” than a traditional real estate transaction. Orrick real estate lawyers have mastered this unique niche through the magnitude of their involvement since the early 1980s in hotel and resort transactions of all kinds in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Members of the Real Estate Group have helped negotiate and document numerous hotel management and pre-opening agreements, both from the ownership and operator sides of the transaction. If employment and labor relation issues arise, Orrick’s real estate lawyers can collaborate with the firm’s Employment Group to help our hospitality clients handle and resolve those issues.

Orrick lawyers have also been involved in the development and financing of major entertainment and sports arenas and facilities. Members of the Real Estate Group have represented both team and arena owners in negotiating facility leases for national sports teams.

Representative hotel and resort clients include: