The hotels and leisure industry is a fast-paced environment with a large number of stakeholders. We have a multi-disciplinary team of advisers, with many years of experience working with investors, operators and funders in the hotels and leisure industry and a thorough understanding of challenges faced by different industry stakeholders.
Our legal advisers at Gateley Legal specialise in real estate; corporate; restructuring; banking and finance; management and franchise agreements; health and safety; employment; regulatory and business defence as well as the full range of other legal services that you would expect from a full service law firm in the hotel and leisure sector.
As well as general transactional tax support provided by Gateley Legal, our fiscal incentives specialists in Gateley Capitus can help clients maximise the value of their hotel investment by ensuring all contractual documentation, leases, licences and tax structures of a transaction are optimised to achieve the best possible outcomes with the UK tax authorities.
Across our built environment consultancies – Gateley Vinden, Gateley RJA and Gateley Smithers Purslow – we have an extensive team of building surveyors, quantity surveyors, project managers and fund monitors who are specialists in all aspects of the built environment, supporting all stakeholders in the hotels and leisure sector in the acquisition of and delivery of their schemes and maintenance, repair and refurbishment of their built assets.
Many of the transactions we work on carry an international flavour, particularly where investment or funding is being derived on a cross-border basis or where an international investor or hotel operator is looking to acquire a UK asset. As well as having our own office in Dubai, we have strong relationships with advisers overseas with whom we have routinely worked to support our clients in the hotel industry.
Full project lifecycle support
Our multi-disciplinary team of advisers support clients throughout the whole lifecycle of a project:
- Phase one: Strategy, acquisition/ investment and planning
- Phase two: Development and construction
- Phase three: Operations
- Phase four: Exit
just some of our experience:
- Acting for Indian-listed corporate, BLS, on the share acquisition of the Trefeddian Hotel, Aberdovey and on a further UK acquisition.
- Acting for Interesting Hotels Group on its acquisition of Netherwood Hotel & Spa, Lake District.
- Advising a high-net-worth investor on the real estate acquisition of a Central London hotel.
- Advising the buyer on the acquisition of a hotelier business.
- Advising a luxury tree-house operator expand into the UK market.
- Advising a Swedish company on its proposal to roll out padel tennis sites nationally.
- Advising an owner on a development agreement for lease with one of the major brands for construction of a 200-bed key apart-hotel scheme in London.
- Advising a hotel operator on hotel management and development agreements relating to the re-branding and refurbishment of a London hotel.
- Undertaking pre-acquisition surveys and technical due diligence on a portfolio of 6 period hotels located across England, some of which are listed, totalling some 550 keys. Subsequent appointment to project manage the refurbishment of one of the hotels including the creation of a spa and outdoor swimming pool.
- Undertaking capital allowances analyses for expenditure incurred by multiple hotel operators on their portfolios across the UK.
- Advising a hotel operator on their refinancing by the bank.
- Advising a UK bank on financing a portfolio of hotels.
- Advising a major hotel chain on franchising arrangements across one of their key brands.
- Advising a UK hotel operator on contracts for the provision of IT services, in-room entertainment and other commercial services to its hotel estate in the UK.
- Advising an owner on contractual arrangements for outsourcing operations of the hotel restaurant.
- Acting for a Singaporean owner on the sale of a UK hotel in Warwickshire.
- Acting on the share sale of the Holiday Inn Express Newbury Park, n. London, to Whitbread.
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