Industries: Hospitality & Resorts

The Hospitality and Resorts team at McGuireWoods is dedicated to serving the hospitality industry, the resort industry and service providers to the hospitality and resort industries. The group provides legal services to those clients in a cost-effective, comprehensive manner, with a keen understanding of the needs of the industry.

Our team focuses on the following areas, among others:

• hotel and lodging
• food and beverage
• resort communities, including golf course communities, time shares, condominiums and community associations
• private membership clubs
• sports and convention facilities
• amusement parks

Our clients include a wide variety of businesses involved in the hospitality and resort industry, including:

• owners, investors and operators of hotels, restaurants and resort communities
• banks and other financial institutions providing project financing as well as other types of credit to the hospitality industry
• franchisors and franchisees
• management companies
• governmental agencies
• real estate developers

In representing these clients, we handle the development, financing, purchase and sale of hotels and resorts, labor and employment matters, tort litigation, alcoholic beverage licensing, franchise agreements, design and construction contracts, management agreements, intellectual property issues and operational contracts, among other things. In addition, we handle mergers and acquisitions, securities and general corporate matters, as well as tax guidance, for clients in the hospitality industry, including real estate investment trusts. We also have extensive experience in structuring and negotiating public-private partnerships and municipal financing transactions for hotels and restaurants. Aside from our transactional expertise, our litigators defend hospitality clients against premises liability, employment and other claims, train and support management in optimizing labor relations, and protect trademarks and other intellectual property.