Ben Tschann

Practice Areas

Ben Tschann is a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group and its Hospitality & Leisure, Real Estate Joint Venture, and Real Estate Finance practices. Ben serves as co-chair of Goodwin’s Hospitality & Leisure practice and is recognized as one of the top hospitality and leisure lawyers in the United States.

While Ben’s practice covers all real estate asset classes, his focus is in real estate assets with an operating business, including hotels and resorts, senior housing/assisted living, and other similar assets such as serviced residential/multifamily and student housing. His work covers structuring, negotiation and documenting complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, debt financings, preferred equity and mezzanine financings, work-outs and restructurings, and short-sales. Ben works with some of the largest institutional investors and real estate developers and sponsors, REITs, insurance companies, family offices/high net-worth individuals, and pension funds in the United States, including AEW Capital, AutoCamp, Behring Capital, DiamondRock Hospitality Company, HEI Hotels & Resorts, Jaybird Capital, KHP Capital, Quadrum Global, Rockwood Capital, and Sunstone Hotel Investors.

Ben has a detailed understanding of hotel operations and critical business functions that impact the ownership and operation of hotels and resorts, senior housing/assisted living and other similar real estate investments that are coupled with an operating business.

He has negotiated dozens of hotel management agreements with HEI Hotels, Quadrum Global, Eagle Point Hotel Partners, AutoCamp, and other emerging hospitality operators, and has negotiated more than 80 hotel management agreements on behalf of hotel managers. He is uniquely positioned to advise the key players in the hospitality and leisure eco-system given his work for both owners/investors and operators. He has worked on all types of hotels and resorts ranging from urban-luxury with branded residential to resort casinos to select service projects. In addition, he has handled numerous transactions involving labor unions and collective bargaining agreements, restaurant and bar operating agreements, and celebrity chef affiliations.

Ben has also handled various cross-border transactions, including the negotiations of hotel management agreements and franchise agreements for clients in Europe and the United Kingdom. In addition to his work overseas, he has worked with numerous foreign investors on structuring real estate investments in the United States, including handling complex tax structurings.

Ben has also handled various management agreements and operating leases common to the senior housing and assisted living space. He is a member of Goodwin’s PropTech team and has worked closely with several PropTech clients in the hospitality and real estate sectors.

Personal

JD, University of Notre Dame 2004 (cum laude); BA, Creighton University 1999 (magna cum laude)