Goodmans helps hospitality businesses navigate the complex commercial, operational, and regulatory issues that define today’s hotel and mixed-use resort market, with legal solutions designed to protect investments, reduce risk, and maximize returns.
For decades, we have advised global hotel brands, management companies, developers, REITs, private equity funds, investors, golf resort operators, and gaming operators across Canada, the U.S., and internationally.
We advise clients on the acquisition, disposition, financing, and restructuring of hospitality assets, helping them structure and close deals efficiently while optimizing value and addressing brand, operator, and lender requirements unique to hotel and resort properties. We routinely negotiate hotel management and licensing agreements for owners, operators, and brands, and support business infrastructure, technology agreements, vendor contracts, and service arrangements, that keeps hospitality operations running smoothly. We support clients through land assembly, zoning, pre-development, construction, joint ventures, and development agreements. We safeguard hospitality brands through trademark protection, and negotiation of key commercial contracts. We also assist with liquor and gaming regulation, employment matters, privacy compliance, accessibility requirements, consumer protection issues, and day‑to‑day operational risk management.
