Hospitality and Restaurant
We represent hotels, hotel management and development companies, regional and national restaurant chains, a major cruise line and businesses that serve the hospitality and restaurant industries. Representative work includes:
- Serving as general corporate counsel for privately held and publicly traded hotel companies
- Serving as counsel in connection with the financing of hotel property acquisitions and in negotiating management agreements
- Completing a $55 million public financing for a major regional hotel chain
- Successfully defending the owner of a major hotel against claims by a general contractor for $2 million in change orders; obtained dismissal of $1.6 million in claims through summary judgment motions and settled the remainder of the case with credit for attorney fees
- Obtaining dismissal of sex and disability discrimination claims against national restaurant company
- Providing ongoing labor and employment advice and negotiating successful settlements of wage hour, OFCCP enforcement actions and other lawsuits and agency actions on behalf of hotels, restaurants and cruise lines