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Akerman LLP

Leisure & Hospitality

USA Guide 2026 : USA - Nationwide


Akerman LLP

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Akerman’s national Hospitality Sector Team provides comprehensive, 360-degree legal counsel to a broad range of hospitality sector clients. The team of seasoned lawyers has a thorough understanding of the hospitality business and its inherent risks, challenges, and emerging opportunities. By leveraging their wealth of sector experience, in-depth market knowledge, and industry-specific insights, they help clients address challenges as well as new opportunities with fresh ideas and creative solutions.

The team advises owners and developers of hotels, resorts, and mixed-use developments throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world. From project conception to operations and disposition, their work includes complex equity and debt transactions, construction issues, regulatory compliance, technology and cyber security matters, dispute resolution, labor and employment, immigration, state and local tax, franchising, licensing and branding issues, and restructuring.

Service Offerings:

  • Hotel and resort acquisition, sale, and development
  • Operational matters
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Dispute resolution
  • Bankruptcy and restructuring

Chambers Review

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Leisure & Hospitality - USA - Nationwide

Band 2

Band 2


What the Team is Known For

Akerman has an impressive hospitality outfit that is adept at handling a broad manner of transactional and contentious work on behalf of hotel owners, developers and investors. The team represents clients in corporate and real estate transactions as well as litigation matters, with a noted capability in cross-border matters.

Work Highlights

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  • Akerman represented of Ace Hotels in its sale of Ace Group International to Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide.

Strengths

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  • Akerman is very business-oriented and understands the scope of the business.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
  • Akerman has thoughtful and responsive partners who take accountability seriously.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
  • Akerman offers very specialized expertise in disputes involving management contracts in the hotel and restaurant industry.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
  • Akerman offers strong industry knowledge in hospitality-related disputes, particularly between hotel owners and operators.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 2Andrew S Robins
    Band 2Andrew S Robins

    Andrew S Robins

    Andrew Robins is highly sought after to provide counsel on due diligence, hotel management agreements and M&A, among other issues.
    • Andrew is great to work with and has a tremendous depth of experience in a complicated field, which makes him a great asset.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
    • Andrew has deep knowledge.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
  • Band 3Joshua Bernstein
    Band 3Joshua Bernstein

    Joshua Bernstein

    Cochair of the hospitality sector team Joshua Bernstein is developing an impressive practice which sees him frequently advise on dispute resolution in the hospitality industry.
    • Joshua Bernstein is excellent in navigating hospitality industry disputes.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
    • Joshua Bernstein is a tough litigator, understands what needs to be done to get the litigation to a close, finds the best solution for the client's interest and is a practical negotiator.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
    • Joshua Bernstein is an amazing litigator.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
  • Band 4Ronald S Kornreich
    Band 4Ronald S Kornreich

    Ronald S Kornreich

    Ronald S Kornreich is well regarded in the leisure and hospitality space for his work advising clients on a range of hospitality transactions and agreements.

    • Ronald is very knowledgeable of the industry.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
    • Ronald is very business-oriented and transaction-oriented, works at a very fast pace and is practical in relation to what needs to be done.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

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