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Sidley Austin LLP

Leisure & Hospitality

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Sidley Austin LLP

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For more information on the practice, please visit the practice's page at: https://www.sidley.com/en/us/services/real-estate/

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Leisure & Hospitality - USA - Nationwide

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Sidley Austin has a notable real estate practice with a strong presence in leisure and hospitality matters across the USA, Europe and Asia. The group's expertise includes conveyancing, financing, investment and joint ventures, alongside significant wider ancillary strengths in labor and employment, tax and disputes work. Its clients include hotel management companies, hedge funds and international investors, among others.

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Work Highlights

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  • Sidley Austin represented Accor in negotiating a hotel management agreement with the Reuben Brothers as the new owner of the Fairmont Century Plaza, concerning the management and operation of its 394 hotel rooms and 63 branded residential condominium units.

Strengths

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  • Sidley Austin is excellent and wonderful in all respects, with a solid hospitality team.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

  • Sidley Austin is very responsive and offers practical advice with strong multi-functional teams.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

  • Sidley Austin has a demonstrated track record handling difficult and complex negotiations.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

  • Sidley Austin offers highly involved and detailed advice, foresight and risk assessments of potential conflicts that are very thorough.

    Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

Notable Practitioners

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  • Keith Hayden Del Prete
    Keith Hayden Del Prete

    Keith Hayden Del Prete

    Keith Hayden Del Prete co-leads the firm's Global Hospitality group, and has experience advising on a range of domestic and cross-border transaction matters, including acquisitions and dispositions.

    • Keith is an excellent business lawyer, practical, a great advocate and strategically-minded. He has extensive knowledge and understanding of the industry.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

    • Keith is an amazing lawyer.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

    • Keith is a very strong lawyer with excellent legal skills and experience. He takes a pragmatic approach.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA

    • Keith has a wide range of knowledge about many different topics, so he can speak on the happenings of the market and advise us what is reasonable and whether we should push back.

      Leisure & Hospitality respondentUSA
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