Grace Yang

Practice Areas

Alcohol Beverage

Administrative and Regulatory

Hospitality

Residential, Resort and Club

Restaurant

Land Use Law

Professional Memberships

Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys, Board of Directors, 2025-2028

Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Tampa Bay, Outstanding Member Award, 2023, Director, 2012-2018

Florida Association for Women Lawyers

The Florida Bar, Administrative Law Section, Voluntary Bar Liaison Committee, 13th Judicial Circuit Nominating Committee for The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award, 2016, 2019

Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers, Vice President of Membership, 2004-2006, Board of Directors, 2003-2004

Hillsborough County Bar Association, Outstanding Lawyer Award, Recipient, 2023, Past President, 2020-2021, President, 2019-2020, President-elect, 2018-2019, Board of Directors, 2012-2018

Hillsborough County Bar Foundation, President, 2025-2026, President-elect, 2024-2025, Treasurer, 2023-2024, Secretary, 2022-2023, Board of Trustees, 2020-2022

Publications

“Liquor Topics,” Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys (AHIA) Spring Meeting, April 17, 2026

“Food and Beverage Legal Risks in Hotels: Licensing, Liability and Alcohol Compliance,” HospitalityLawyer.com Webinar, April 13, 2026

“Licenses, Live Local Act, and Libations: Navigating Hospitality and Workplace Alcohol Compliance,” Association of Corporate Counsel, Central Florida Chapter CLE Luncheon, March 25, 2026

“What Happens in Nashville Doesn’t Stay in Nashville - Liquor Liability in Various States,” Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys (AHIA) Fall Meeting, October 18, 2024

Moderator, “Imposter Syndrome Luncheon,” The Hillsborough County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Joint Luncheon, April 15, 2024

“Fla. Restaurants Need To Prep For Liquor License Changes,” Law360, April 6, 2023

Experience

Grace Yang collaborates with alcohol beverage and food vendors in the areas of regulation, licensing, land use, and multistate compliance issues. With decades of experience advising clients in the hospitality sector, she has handled the purchase, sale, and licensure of thousands of retail stores, resort properties, restaurants, senior living facilities, and other businesses throughout the United States. Clients include hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, package liquor stores, resorts, golf clubs, country clubs, theme parks, breweries, wineries, and distilleries, among others.

On the licensure side, Grace helps clients obtain and maintain liquor licenses, food and lodging licenses, local business licenses, health permits, spa and salon permits, and other licenses needed for lawful operation in various states. She also counsels clients in food and alcohol compliance matters and enjoys helping clients launch new business ventures in this highly regulated industry. Her land use work focuses on commercial development projects where alcohol-related special use or conditional use permits or variances are needed for new businesses. Grace frequently represents alcohol beverage and hospitality sector clients before local and state administrative agencies.

As deputy section chair of the firm’s leading Regulated Products Section, Grace successfully manages project teams working to acquire licenses in multistate business acquisitions. She is an active sector player and frequently sought-after thought leader in the hospitality space. Well respected by clients and colleagues alike, Grace often joins GrayRobinson colleagues in the corporate, real estate, and hospitality practices to deliver wide-ranging and creative support for clients.

Education

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