
Resort, Hospitality, and Leisure
Our experienced resort, hospitality, and leisure lawyers represent clients in complicated, large-scale, urban and resort hotel projects throughout North and South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Australia.
We have decades of experience helping our clients understand and deal with the business and legal issues that command their attention. We use our knowledge and experience to ensure our clients protect themselves from current risks and are positioned appropriately for future success.
We provide a broad range of services that range from the investment, financing, and development of projects through all of the legal issues presented in the course of hotel or resort operations. Our clients include developers, investors, lenders, construction companies, management companies and franchisors, and operators and franchisees.
Our resort, hospitality, and leisure lawyers provide counsel in a variety of areas, including:
- Financing
- Reorganization and bankruptcy
- Matters related to mixed-use luxury resorts and urban communities
- Casinos and gaming
- Pro-development legislation and planning standards
- Hotel law
- Golf law
Thought Leadership
On 25 July 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14320, Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack, outlining a national strategy to promote global adoption of US-developed artificial intelligence technologies and assert American leadership in global standards and supply chains.
On 15 August 2025 the IRS released Notice 2025-42 (the Notice), which restricts the methods that developers of wind and solar projects can use to determine whether they have begun construction for purposes of the section 45Y production credit and the section 48E investment credit on and after 2 September 2025.
On 4 July 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Republican budget reconciliation bill, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, Pub. L. No. 119-21 into law.
On 18 July 2025, the Council of the European Union adopted additional measures which have been introduced in its 18th sanctions package in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.