Hotels

We have a long track record in the hospitality industry: we advised on the first purpose-built luxury hotel in the UK, The Savoy in 1886, and from then we have not looked back.

We are regularly involved in high profile transactions in the UK acting for leading hotel investors, developers and operators, cinema chains, e-sports operators and expanding restaurant chains and private members clubs.

Our strength in transactional work means that we can advise clients on the structuring, financing and successful execution of acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and refinancings. More broadly, we support clients across all areas of commercial activity including planning, development, management, franchising, and operational, promotional and contentious matters.

Our sector specialists help investors, developers and end-users with the acquisition, development, construction and funding of hospitality related developments, both on single assets and across large portfolios both domestically and internationally. In all these activities, our tax team provides advice and expertise to ensure that transactions are structured and managed tax efficiently, particularly in relation to property tax.

Related Expertise

• real estate development including planning, construction, environmental and rights of light advice
• real estate leasing and management
• joint ventures and investments
• management and operating contracts
• franchise agreements and concessions
• asset acquisitions and disposals
• M&A
• structured and debt finance
• funds and regulatory
• commercial agreements and intellectual property
• tax structuring and planning
• technology and e-commerce
• management buy-outs
• sale and lease / manage back