• Arts & Cultural Property
• Banking & Financial Services
• Charities
• Media & Entertainment
• Property
• Retail & Leisure
  • Fashion
  • Hotels
  • Restaurants
• Technology, digital media and marcoms

The hoteliers that we work with tend to be luxury brands, boutique operators or mid-sized chains. We advise on developments of new hotels, acquiring and disposing of existing ones, employment, funding, operational and management arrangements.

Our services include:

• Business owners and directors through FSI personal
• Corporate, banking and tax
• Real estate
• Franchising and licensing
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Brand protection
• Commercial litigation
• Business crime and fraud
• Insolvency and business recovery
• IT and software

Recent experience advising:

• Polenta Holdings Limited on the purchase of Blakes Hotel for £20 million
• the Conran management team on The Great Eastern Hotel - including the establishment of a joint venture; preparation of operational agreements; bank funding; associated property work including a joint venture with British Land; outsourcing agreements and advising on its subsequent disposal
• The Splendid Hotel Group on acquisitions, disposals, development, funding, planning, construction, litigation, tax and employment. The Splendid Hotel Group own and operate approximately 18 hotels, primarily in London, that are mainly branded/franchised as Holiday Inn or Express by Holiday Inn
• A high profile London hotel on employment matters relating to discrimination claims brought by hotel staff and ongoing personnel issues
• Steeltower Group on the negotiation of several management contracts with Hilton for future hotels to be constructed by Steeltower on identified sites throughout England
• Muirgold Ltd/Romahaven Ltd on acquiring and disposing of a number of hotels including the development of the Great Western Royal Hotel Paddington as well as the acquisition and subsequent disposal of the Kensington Moathouse
• La Tremoille, Paris and a landmark Stockholm hotel on an operational food and beverage agreements
• The Malmaison hotel chain on their joint venture with Marylebone Warwick Balfour Plc
• Mour Hotels on property, corporate, employment and IP issues regarding its recent acquisition of Dakota Hotel, Nottingham
• Bettercam Ltd on its development and letting of a new Premier Inn hotel in Newquay, Cornwall
• Radisson SAS on the disposal of the Portman Hotel and Manchester Hotel. In both transactions, Radisson retained an operating agreement
• Baglioni on their acquisition and development of their first UK hotel at Hyde Park Gate, Kensington