Hotels & Leisure
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 3
Email address
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(0)330 460 7000Chambers Review
Fieldfisher has an established team with a broad domestic offering, but also houses notable cross-border capabilities. It provides advice on franchising, acquisitions and financing issues throughout Europe and the Middle East. The team advises a diverse client roster that includes hotels, food and beverage outlets, holiday travel operators and casinos.
Work Highlights
- Fieldfisher assisted EL&N International on the international expansion of its cafes, and managed relationships with existing franchises.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fieldfisher produce quality lawyers."
"The firm provide commercially driven insight based upon in-depth sector knowledge."
"The advice received was always technically excellent but also practical."
"The team have been unwavering in their knowledge, along with introducing specific expertise where needed from the wider firm."
"Fieldfisher produce quality lawyers."
"The firm provide commercially driven insight based upon in-depth sector knowledge."
"The advice received was always technically excellent but also practical."
"The team have been unwavering in their knowledge, along with introducing specific expertise where needed from the wider firm."
Notable Practitioners
Paul Houston heads the firm's hotels and leisure sector team. He maintains a broad transactional practice that encompasses the purchase and sale of investment portfolios, the pre-letting of development sites and the real estate aspects of corporate transactions.
"Paul is very proactive, commercial and the type of lawyer that will pick up the phone to find solutions. He is always good at meeting deadlines and good with the other side to push deals forward."
"Paul is really commercial and hard-working; a pleasure to deal with."
"Paul is very commercial, responsive and gets things done."