Top picks of hospitality lawyer insights in 2008 are: (1) hotel financing and hotel values in buy-sell transactions, (2) hotel management agreements, and (3) LEED & GREEN hotel development
By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
21 June 2008
Hospitality Attorney's top insights to hotel industry. As we approach the half-way mark in 2008, the hospitality lawyers in JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® thought it would be interesting to determine our readers' "top picks" of all the articles we have posted this year. We could almost say that the top three picks are hotel financing, hotel financing and hotel financing. But here are the top three picks by "Topics" at www.HotelLawBlog.com:
(1) Hotel financing and hotel values in buy-sell transactions(2) Hotel management agreements
(3) LEED and GREEN hotel development
How do you find the articles you want to read on HotelLawBlog.com?
The Top Picks articles are organized by the major TOPICS on the Blog. We generally tried to select just the top few articles for each TOPIC. It was a major struggle to decide where to make the cutoff. If you want more information on a particular TOPIC, you can go to www.HotelLawBlog.com, scroll down the right hand side and below the (free) subscription and RSS Feed buttons is the Browse search engine that enables you to search or sort by TOPIC (or date, or key words, etc.).
Or just click on the links provided below. Here they are . . . the top picks so far this year.
(1) Hotel Financing And Hotel Values In Buy-Sell TransactionsHotel Attorney on Hotel Cap Rates. What's happening to hotel cap rates, values and financing?Hotel Attorney at Meet the Money® -- Report on Major Hotel Transactions by Suzanne Mellen of HVS
Hotel Attorney with Hotel Financing Experts at Meet the Money® 2008
(2) Hotel Management Agreements
Hotel Management Agreements. How to get the right hotel operator: part 1Hotel Management Agreements. How to get the right hotel operator: part 2
Hotel Management Agreements. How to get the right hotel operator: part 3
Hotel Lawyer -- How to terminate a hotel management agreement when an operator really deserves it
(3) LEED and GREEN hotel developmentHospitality Lawyer on the Hotel of TomorrowHotel Lawyer: How to build, operate and finance GREEN hotels now.
Green Hotel Lawyer: ULI's Urban Land article on Greening Hotels
This is Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com and hotel lawyer, signing off. We've done more than $50 billion of hotel transactions and more than 100 hotel mixed-used deals in the last 5 years alone. Who's your hotel lawyer?________________________
Our Perspective. We represent developers, owners and lenders. We have helped our clients as business and legal advisors on more than $50 billion of hotel transactions, involving more than 1,000 properties all over the world. For more information, please contact Jim Butler at jbutler@jmbm.com or 310.201.3526.
Jim Butler is one of the top hospitality attorneys in the world. GOOGLE "hotel lawyer" or "hotel mixed-use" or "condo hotel lawyer" and you will see why.
Jim devotes 100% of his practice to hospitality, representing hotel owners, developers and lenders. Jim leads JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $50 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. In the last 5 years alone, Jim and his team have assisted clients with more than 100 hotel mixed-use projects -- frequently integrated with energizing lifestyle elements.
Jim and his team are more than "just" great hotel lawyers. They are also hospitality consultants and business advisors. They are deal makers. They can help find the right operator or capital provider. They know who to call and how to reach them.
Jim is frequently quoted as an expert on hotel issues by national and industry publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Hotel Business. He is the Conference Chairman of The Hotel Developers Conference™ and Meet the Money®.
Contact him at jbutler@jmbm.com or 310.201.3526. For his views on current industry issues, visit www.HotelLawBlog.com.
