Hospitality

Blank Rome understands that the cornerstone of the hospitality industry is customer service. Our firm delivers comprehensive legal services to clients, helping them seize growth opportunities and respond to challenges. The Blank Rome hospitality team serves as a one‑stop resource for clients seeking guidance on business projects and potential litigation.

How We Can Help 

Blank Rome’s team functions as strategic legal and business counsel. We regularly represent developers, lenders, investors, owners, and operators on a multitude of matters, including joint ventures, capital structuring, brand and licensing strategies, brand expansion through management and license agreements, dispute resolution, and workforce challenges. 

Drawing on deep resources and our collective decades of experience, we help clients move their objectives forward in a wide array of matters including: 

• Drafting and negotiating agreements for hotel, restaurant, and mixed-use hospitality projects, including management, franchise, license, lease, and brand agreements
• Advising on and negotiating joint venture agreements in various hospitality transactions
• Advising on and negotiating complex financing agreements, with a particular focus on construction, C-PACE and EB-5 financing matters
• Advising on and reviewing construction agreements, including AIA form agreements
• Drafting and negotiating single asset, portfolio, entity, and loan purchase and sale agreements
• Advising on acquisitions to entity-level leveraged mergers and buyouts
• Identifying optimal hotel and restaurant brands, tenants, and strategic partners and negotiating the terms thereof
• Advising on labor and employment issues
• Providing liability advice and negotiating Collective Bargaining Agreements and other labor agreements associated with union matters
• Advising on the formation and operation of private members’ clubs
• Advising on hotel workouts, receiverships, and bankruptcies
• Providing intellectual property counsel and trademark filing and portfolio oversight
• Negotiating complex multi-party litigation and class action disputes

Our group provides advice concerning other aspects of the hospitality industry, including:

• Non-disclosure and non-compete agreements
• Vendor contracts and disputes
• Data privacy
• Construction agreements and litigation
• Fiduciary duty issues
• Accessibility/ADA compliance and defense
• Construction/AIA agreements
• Labor and employment, including union issues
• Gaming and related regulatory matters