Hotels, Resorts & Tourism

As the hospitality industry continues to recover and revitalize from the impact of COVID-19, the responses by both business and consumers have accelerated significant change.

Hotel brands are developing creative approaches to reinvigorate existing business and develop new lines of business as the world lives through the pandemic. They have announced cleanliness policies and accelerated adoption of technology to offer contactless check-ins, messaging, room service, mobile room keys and more. This response to the market change has also resulted in enhanced brand standards demonstrating commitments to sustainability, alongside online marketing and increased use of technology to enhance overall customer experience.

Suis Law global hotels and hospitality team services the hotels, real estate and tourism industries across the globe with support across our strategic offices in The Middle East, Asia, Europe, USA and the Caribbean.
The hotels and hospitality industry is an increasingly specialised sector and sophisticated legal, yet commercial and pragmatic, advice from experienced hospitality lawyers is critical to ensuring clients obtain optimum value out of any transaction. And with our global office footprint, we can provide the advice you need, when and where you need it.
We work with some of the industry’s most respected hotel owners and developers, funds, private members’ clubs and many of the leading global, regional and boutique operators. Our hospitality lawyers also have significant personal networks in the industry, and are sought out for their deep sector know-how and experience.
We provide clients with advice on site acquisitions, hotel portfolio and platform transactions, mixed use developments, forward funding, hotel leasing, hotel management agreements, franchise agreements, joint ventures and fund formation.
We also offer integrated advice on critical ancillary areas of the law related to the full life cycle of any hotel project such as planning, construction, financing, employment, IP, IT and data protection/privacy and dispute resolution as well as co-ordinated trust and tax planning advice, through our market leading tax and private client teams.