Our lawyers advise the world’s leading hospitality and leisure owners, operators, investors, and developers. They combine deep sector expertise with a global platform spanning more than 70 offices across over 30 countries.
Legal advice for a fast-moving hospitality market
The hospitality and leisure sector continues to evolve quickly. Businesses are responding to changing customer expectations, rising costs, regulatory pressure and new forms of development, including branded residences, serviced apartments, mixed-use destinations and experience-led leisure assets.
Clients need legal advisers who understand how hospitality businesses are structured, financed, developed and operated in practice. Our team provides commercially focused advice that helps clients manage risk, protect value and move projects and transactions forward with confidence.
We work at the intersection of real estate, corporate, finance and operations, delivering pragmatic, outcome focused advice shaped by first hand industry experience.
Our Hospitality and Leisure group advises across the full spectrum of the sector, including:
- hotels
- branded residences
- resorts and mixed use destinations
- leisure complexes
- casinos
- health and fitness facilities
- restaurants and bars
- cinemas
- theme parks
We advise clients across the hospitality and leisure sector on a wide range of legal and commercial matters, including:
- acquisitions and disposals
- development and construction
- hotel management and franchise agreements
- financing and refinancing
- joint ventures and investment structures
- operational and regulatory issues
- restructuring and repositioning
- disputes and risk management
Our work is shaped by a clear understanding of how hospitality assets and businesses operate in practice, from concept and investment through to launch, trading and exit.
Branded residences are one of the fastest growing segments of the global hospitality sector, and we have established a leading position in this space. We advise on both co located, hotel anchored schemes and standalone branded residential projects, working with international hotel brands, developers, and investors.
Our experience includes negotiating branded residence arrangements alongside hotel management agreements across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. We have acted on more than 35 hotel and branded residence transactions for a leading global brand and regularly advise on serviced apartment and branded residence projects in the UAE, the United States, Italy, Spain, and other key markets.
Our hospitality lawyers operate as part of a sector led, cross disciplinary team drawing on expertise across real estate, corporate and M&A, finance, construction, employment, regulatory, tax, IP, data, and disputes — ensuring advice aligned with operational and commercial realities.
With hospitality lawyers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the United States, we support clients on cross-border transactions, developments and operational matters in multiple jurisdictions.
We deliver coordinated advice across regions while staying focused on local legal, regulatory and market considerations. This helps clients manage complexity, maintain momentum and support long-term growth across their portfolios.