About

Provided by Akerman LLP

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

3
Band 3

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, with noted capability in cross-border matters.

Work Highlights

  • Akerman advised Tiara Telluride on the development of the Six Senses Telluride project, which will include 77 luxury hotel unites and 24 Six Senses branded residences.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Andrew S Robins
2
Andrew S Robins
2
Band 2
Andrew Robins is highly sought after to provide counsel on due diligence, hotel management agreements and M&A, among other issues.

Andrew Robins is excellent at shepherding long transactions through.

Joshua Bernstein
3
Joshua Bernstein
3
Band 3
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 very responsive and works extremely well with clients.

Joshua is a great attorney.

He is extremely practical, super effective and business-minded.

4
Ronald S Kornreich
4
Band 4

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.

Ranked Lawyers at
Akerman LLP

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USA - Nationwide

Leisure & Hospitality

Andrew S Robins
2
Andrew S Robins
2
Band 2
Joshua Bernstein
3
Joshua Bernstein
3
Band 3
4
Ronald S Kornreich
4
Band 4