Represented the buyer on acquisition.

Represented the company in land use issues relating to a North San Diego County, California development project.

Represented client in proposed disposition.

Represented lender on senior debt.

Represented owner-developer on range of issues through development and opening.

We advised on branding and management issues, and the integration of hotel and timeshare facilities.

Represented lender in dealing with this distressed asset, including receivership, management agreement termination and repositioning.

Worked on resort management agreement issues.

Worked on management agreement, financing, condominium and vacation ownership issues.

Represented purchaser on buy side acquisition.

Represented Japanese owner for more than 15 years on termination of management and partnership with major brand, repositioning property as a Park Hyatt and many operational, labor, land use and financial matters.

Represented a REIT on the acquisition of The Boulders and other high profile luxury properties.

Represented the buyer on acquisition.

Represented the buyer on acquisition.

Represented the owner on management agreement matters.

Represented owner-developer in a range of issues from management agreement, financing, joint venture, mixed-use and operational matters.

Represented buyer on acquisition.

The Crow Family hired our team to assist them in repositioning their landmark Anatole hotel. We helped them terminate a long-term, branded management agreement. Then we conducted an RFP for a new branded manager (using JMBM's HMA PRO ^TM ) and finalized a deal with Hilton Hotels.

As the Ritz-Carlton Bali, this fabulous resort arguably built the luxury chain's resort brand in Asia. Our team negotiated critical management agreement amendments that ultimately enabled the owner to terminate the long-term, no-cut contract. We developed the strategy and filed the litigation that successfully ousted the luxury brand operator. We then assisted the owner in selecting a new luxury operator and negotiating an agreement that was much more favorable to the owner.

During a protracted city-wide strike, we successfully negotiated the only labor contracts in the City with this hotel's various unions. We have also served as general counsel to the owner on virtually all legal matters from branding, management, financing, land use and entitlements, and ownership structure issues.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Built circa 1590, Schloss Hotel Velden has long been a preferred destination of the international jet set, royalty, dignitaries, movie stars and writers. We assisted the European lender in terminating a long-term hotel management agreement with a luxury brand operator without cost or payment to the operator.

Luxury hotels like this often provide the spark plug to energize and create value with high-end mixed-use for hotel-anchored residential, condo hotel, retail and office projects. We have represented the Trump Organization and other clients on more than 100 hotel mixed-used projects throughout the U.S., Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe.

We helped our client acquire this hotel as REO, refinance it and then explore several disposition options, using our experience gathered over more than $60 billion of hotel transactions involving more than 1,300 properties around the world.

The Woodlands project, one of the largest hotel mixed-use developments in the United States, demonstrates how each component of a hotel mixed-use project enhances the other. Residential elements fetch higher prices and rents, retail and restaurants generate more sales, and hotels achieve significantly higher revenue per available room (RevPAR).

Represented Miyako on various franchise and operational matters as well as its global repositioning efforts, including 19 hotels in Japan and 2 hotels in the U.S.

Represented owner-developer in management agreement matters.

We represented our Taiwan-based, public-company client in the purchase of worldwide rights to the Regent Hotel brand, as well as, properties and hotel management agreements in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. After the acquisition, we also assisted them with management agreements and condo hotel regime structure matters.

JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® represented the owner of this iconic resort — in designing and executing a successful strategy to terminate a top luxury brand's management contract and remove the branded operator from the property. The contract had 50 years left to run. The victory included winning a Federal Court decision upholding our interpretation of applicable legal principles superseding the contract terms. The operator's suit to regain control of the hotel was soundly defeated on all grounds.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

Assisted owner recruit and select hotel operator and negotiate hotel management agreement.

For Michael Dell's real estate investment company, our Global Hospitality Group® handled the acquisition of this complex Hawaiian 5-star resort.

We frequently put people and deals together. For example, this property was just one in a series of hotels bought by Platinum Equity after we introduced them to an independent hotel operator who sourced the first few deals. We subsequently introduced the team to a portfolio acquisition opportunity which the purchased. We handled the purchase, financing, management and franchise agreements for the hotels.

We facilitated the sale of the Sheraton Universal Hotel to Shenzhen New World Group in a complex sale transaction by a court-appointed receiver.

We worked on many aspects of this mixed-use hotel property, including land use, almost $300 million of senior debt and mezzanine financing for development, and EB-5 financing for the Drai's Vegas-style night club and the Delphine fine-dining restaurant at the hotel.

We represent many hotel owners and operators nationwide on their labor matters, such as the collective bargaining agreement for the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel.

The city of Dallas hired us to conduct a request for proposal (using JMBM's HMA PRO ^TM approach) for hotel brands to manage this large, convention center hotel. We assisted in the selection process and then negotiated a "qualified hotel management agreement" meeting the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code for a project financed with tax-exempt bonds.

JMBM assisted the owner of this landmark Jakarta hotel in terminating a long-term, no-cut, management agreement with a top luxury brand, selecting a new operator and rebranding the hotel as the InterContinental Midplaza.

We provided a range of legal services for this restaurant, including acquisition and leasing, structuring a joint venture, procuring a liquor license and resolving land use issues relating to its unique beachfront setting.

Represented owner-developer in management and branding matters.

We have assisted many lenders and special servicers with troubled assets – more than 1,000 workouts, bankruptcies, receiverships and recapitalizations. Representative clients include Wells Fargo Bank, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Union Bank, HSH Nordbank AG, HSBC Bank USA, and Lehman Brothers, Inc. Special servicer clients include Midland Loan Services (represented on this Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn), Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, Helios AMC and ORIX Capital Markets.

Represented lender on senior debt financing.

Represented owner on development, branding and management agreement for the hotel.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented owner in repositioning hotel with identification of brand and operator candidates, recruiting operators and negotiating hotel management agreement and related documentation.

Represented lender on senior debt financing.

Because of our expertise and leadership in hospitality lending, we regularly represent lenders on their hotel loans. The properties shown here are representative of some of the smaller loans we have handled. We also handle financing for larger, more complex properties and resorts, domestically and internationally, and portfolios, including many hotels in the brand families of Marriott, Hilton, InterContinental, Starwood, Hyatt, Best Western and Choice. Some high-profile lending work includes the W Hollywood, Four Season Scottsdale, Four Seasons Aviara, Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Marriott Renaissance Las Vegas.

We help owners of single hotels, portfolios and national chains develop a proactive approach to accessibility compliance and challenges, as we did for the owner of this prestigious ski resort.

Our hotel lawyers represented a European bank in maximizing recovery on a $156 million loan secured by a luxury hotel mixed-use property (with residential and retail) operated by a top luxury brand. Our strategies resulted in the lender taking possession of the hotel and other mixed-use assets, while avoiding liability under an SNDA and terminating the long-term hotel management agreement. Termination of the management agreement immediately added at least $41 million of value to the property.

We have performed hotel management agreement work on some of the most iconic hotels in the world, such as: The Plaza, Hilton Anatole, Hilton San Francisco, Omni Dallas Convention Center, InterContinental Jakarta, Regent Hong Kong, Trump Panama and the Schlosshotel Velden, Austria.

We have performed system-wide accessibility audits for Extended Stay America hotels (including prototype plan checking), and have assisted them nationally with proactive and defensive ADA and related accessibility compliance matters.

JMBM represented a wealthy Chinese family in multi-state federal court litigation against the New York hotel union, charging unlawful unionization of one of its hotels in Manhattan. The outcome stopped union organizing at all of the family's 8 New York City hotels.

We have defended more than 500 ADA and related accessibility claims for owners of hotels, restaurants, spas, wineries, performing arts theaters, and other commercial real estate. In this case, our international hotel owner-operator client hired us for national representation in ADA and accessibility matters, including the defense of the high profile Department of Justice ADA compliance "sweep" of more than 50 hotels in Manhattan's Times Square entertainment district.