Hotels & Resorts

Allen Matkins has developed a reputation as one of the premier law firms in the United States for expertise in all matters relating to the hospitality industry. With extensive experience in both foreign and domestic hospitality-property transactions, Allen Matkins' attorneys are widely recognized for their creativity and problem solving abilities. Allen Matkins represents the full spectrum of hospitality clients, including owners, developers, hotel companies, REITs, Wall Street and other equity investors, lenders, franchisees, operating companies and management companies. We represent clients around the world in connection with the acquisition, entitlement, development and financing of hotels, resorts, golf courses and recreational facilities and continue to represent these clients in connection with day-to-day matters such as construction, environmental, labor, tax and litigation matters. Because Allen Matkins has developed such strong and comprehensive knowledge of the hospitality industry, many of the firm's clients seek advice from our attorneys not only on legal matters, but also on various business-related issues.

Recently completed hospitality and resort transactions which are representative of those handled by Allen Matkins include the following acquisitions, dispositions and resolutions.

Acquisitions: (i) the acquisition and financing of an internationally renowned, premier 300+ room ocean-front resort hotel in Hawaii; (ii) the acquisition and financing of the nationally celebrated Biltmore Resort & Spa of Arizona, with a transaction value of over $350,000,000; (iii) the acquisition of a prominent luxury resort hotel in the San Francisco Bay area; (iv) the acquisition and joint development of a 1,500 acre master planned golf course community in Arizona and the separate acquisition and joint development of a 1,500 acre master planned community in Fountain Hills, Arizona.

Dispositions and resolutions: (i) the disposition of a multi-state hotel portfolio comprised of eleven hotel properties; (ii) the disposition of the Sheraton Grande Torrey Pines golf resort; (iii) the disposition of a boutique hotel in Aspen, Colorado, two years following the Allen Matkins assisted acquisition of the same; and (iv) the settlement of ongoing buy/sell litigation between development partners, together with the liquidation of the financial partner's investment in a 20,000 acre golf/residential project located in Monterey, California.