Ben Tschann

Clients look to Ben Tschann for representation in real estate transactions across asset classes with intense operating business that are dependent on the real estate, including hotels and resorts, senior housing/assisted living, sports facilities, and industrial projects. His work covers structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, debt financings, preferred equity and mezzanine financings, work-outs and restructurings, and short-sales. Ben also advises clients on key operating agreements such as hotel management agreements, franchise and strategic affiliations, operating agreements, asset management and project management agreements.

Ben prides himself on working a wide and diverse group of clients, ranging from sponsors and entrepreneurs in the hospitality and operational real estate industries to large institutional investors, such as private equity funds, life insurance companies, REITs, family offices/high-net worth individuals, and pension funds.

Ben has a detailed understanding of the real estate operations and critical business functions that impact the ownership and operation of hotels and resorts, senior housing/assisted living, sports facilities and other similar real estate investments that are coupled with an operating business.

He has negotiated dozens of hotel management agreements, as well as over 200 hotel management agreements on behalf of hotel managers. He is well-positioned to advise the key players in the hospitality and leisure ecosystem, given his work for both owners/investors and operators. He has worked on all types of hotels and resorts, ranging from urban-luxury with branded residential to outdoor-oriented facilities to select service projects. In addition, he has handled numerous transactions involving labor unions and collective bargaining agreements, restaurant and bar operating agreements, and celebrity chef affiliations.

Ben has also handled various cross-border transactions, including the negotiations of hotel management agreements and franchise agreements for clients in Latin American, Europe and the United Kingdom. In addition to his work overseas, he has worked with numerous foreign investors on inbound US investments.

JD, University of Notre Dame 2004 (cum laude); BA, Creighton University 1999 (magna cum laude)