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Leisure & Hospitality - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins' team is a transactional powerhouse with significant expertise in the hotel, leisure and gaming sectors, routinely acting on complex financings, M&A and joint ventures. Leveraging its extensive global reach, the team routinely acts for leading hotels and casino operations based in the USA and Europe. Its client base also encompasses a broad spectrum of leading financial institutions, private equity houses and wider investors. Latham is increasingly active on transactions involving public-private partnerships.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins advised Hyatt Hotels on its entry into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Playa Hotels & Resorts for approximately $2.6 billion.

Strengths

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Latham & Watkins's attorneys are experts in the field and have great experience with complex issues.

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Because of its experience, Latham & Watkins is very keen on proactively identifying issues way far in advance of when we would encounter them, which gives us an edge.

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Latham & Watkins offers deep knowledge of the hospitality sector, management agreements, union agreements and all the nuances that come with those.

Leisure & Hospitality respondent
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Latham & Watkins is highly effective, responsive and quick, with great subject matter expertise.

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Latham & Watkins is extremely commercial and understands the business perspective very well. The law firm is very easy to work with, comes with so much transaction expertise and is able to provide many reference points for any challenging decisions.

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Notable Practitioners

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Gary Axelrod
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Gary Axelrod
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Cohead of the hospitality gaming and leisure department, Gary Axelrod is an acknowledged leader in the leisure and hospitality field. He is a go-to attorney for big-ticket transactions such as joint ventures and acquisitions.

Gary is smart, efficient, comes up with sensible approaches, breaks down topics very well and provides relevant and helpful context. He is a problem-solver and counsel extraordinaire.

Gary Axelrod has broad knowledge and can see a wide range of issues.

Gary is one of the premier hospitality lawyers in the country, very smart and well respected.

Gary is fantastic and extremely knowledgeable.

Gary is practical and a very good lawyer.

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Rachel Bates
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Rachel Bates
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Rachel Bates draws on notable transactional strength when advising a range of REITs and hospitality owners. She shows expertise handling acquisitions, joint venture transactions and equity investment.

Rachel is excellent to work with, very clear, responsive and pragmatic and her commercial awareness is very high.

Rachel is terrific, a really skilled practitioner and easy to get along with.

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Ranked Lawyers at
Latham & Watkins LLP

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Gary Axelrod
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Gary Axelrod
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Rachel Bates
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Rachel Bates
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