Hotels & leisure businesses
The hotel 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 hotel industry and a thorough understanding of challenges faced by different hotel industry stakeholders.
Our legal advisors at Gateley Legal specialise in real estate, corporate, restructuring, banking and finance, and commerce, technology and media transactions in the hotel industry. 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. Gateley Vinden have a 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 hotel and leisure sector in the delivery of their schemes and management 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. 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 are able to support clients throughout the whole lifecycle of a project:
- Phase one: Strategy, acquisition and planning
- Phase two: Development and construction
- Phase three: Operations
- Phase four: Exit
JUST SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCE
- Advising a high-net-worth investor on the real estate acquisition of a Central London hotel
- 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 major hotel chain on franchising arrangements across one of their key brands
- Advising an owner on contractual arrangements for outsourcing operations of the hotel restaurant
- Advising a hotel operator on hotel management and development agreements relating to the re-branding and refurbishment of a London hotel
- Advising a private fund on the acquisition of hotel assets in North West England
- Advising a hotel operator on their refinancing by the bank
- Advising a UK bank on financing a portfolio of hotels
- Advising the buyer on the acquisition of a hotelier business
- 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