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Hotel Mixed-Use

Posted On: February 4, 2009 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

"Hotel Mixed-Use" is the key to reinventing retail says ULI Retail Panel

By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group®
Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com
4 February 2009

Hotel lawyer in Beverly Hills at the ULI "Reinventing Retail and Mixed-Use" program, the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California, February 4-5, 2009. The Urban Land Institute's big retail conference is underway and one of the lead off panels had some great information about why hotels are being added to retail mixed-use projects.

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Posted On: January 5, 2009 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

The Best from the Blog -- Hotel Lawyers

By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group®
Hotel Lawyers | Authors of www.HotelLawBlog.com
5 January 2009

To say the least, the last year has been a very "interesting" one. Here are our picks for "The Best from HotelLawBlog.com" from 2008. There are some classic pieces here!

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Posted In: ADA, Global Financial Crisis & Recovery, Green Hotels, Hotel Finance − Hotel Debt & Hotel Equity , Hotel Management Agreements, Hotel Mixed-Use, Labor & Employment, Meet the Money®, Timeshare, Workouts, Bankruptcies & Receiverships

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Posted On: May 12, 2008 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Hotel Attorney on State of the Hospitality Industry. Bobby Bowers' Smith Travel Research presentation at JMBM's Meet the Money® 2008

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
13 May 2008

Here is the presentation from Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research. (bobby@smithtravelresearch.com or (615) 824-8664) at JMBM's recent Meet the Money® conference. This is an excellent overview of where the hospitality industry has been and where we are going.

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Posted In: Hotel Mixed-Use, Meet the Money®

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Posted On: April 21, 2008 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Hotel Attorney on Hotel Management Agreements. How to get the right hotel operator: part 1

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
21 April 2008

Hotel Lawyer on hotel management agreements. Long-term, no-cut hotel management agreements: How to get the right brand and operator for your hotel project . . . and a deal you can live with.

The successful matching of a hotel brand and operator with an asset and its owner is an important determinant of the financial and operational success of a hotel project. Aside from the right "marriage" partners, the terms of the management contract tying them together is critical, because it will likely govern the relationship for decades and is hard to change once cast.

Question: What's more important for your hotel project than getting the "right" brand and operator?

Answer: Not much! Finding the right operator or brand for your project -- and achieving reasonable terms -- can make a significant and positive impact in key areas: value, financing, and operational success.

So how do you do that?

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Posted In: Hotel Management Agreements, Hotel Mixed-Use

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Posted On: August 28, 2007 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Hotel Lawyer: Ali Kasikci accepts MD position at Montage Beverly Hills. Luxury hotel and residential mixed-use project on a fast track now!

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
28 August 2007

Hotel Lawyer in Beverly Hills with good news for luxury hotel mixed-use aficionados. The trend of hotel mixed-use continues. This time, Beverly Hills will get its turn as the city anxiously awaits the latest luxury hotel development by the internationally acclaimed Montage Hotels & Resorts. Just steps from Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, and in the City's "golden triangle," this 201-room luxury hotel will be a fresh breath of air to those who appreciate "the best."

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Posted In: Hotel Mixed-Use, Outlook and Trends

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Posted On: July 27, 2007 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

JMBM Hotel Lawyers Announce First Green Hotel Development Conference

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
27 July 2007

Hotel Lawyer on GREEN hotel development. Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP (JMBM) announced today that The Hotel Developers Conference™ 2008 (www.jmbm.com/THDC) will focus entirely on green hotel development and renovation. Presented by the 50-lawyer team of JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® this green hotel "summit" is co-sponsored by the University of Las Vegas (UNLV) and the Los Angeles Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). More than 450 hospitality industry leaders are expected to attend, March 12-13, 2008, at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As we have said here on www.HotelLawBlog.com before: "Don't wait for the GREEN. It is here"

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Posted In: Green Hotels, Hotel Developers Conference™, Hotel Mixed-Use, International Hotel Investment

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Posted On: July 9, 2007 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Hotel Lawyer -- Eco-friendly lifestyle hotel mixed use project closes financing

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
9 July 2007

Hotel Lawyer on eco-friendly hotel financing in Hollywood California. Today, JMBM issued a press release announcing that its Global Hospitality Group® closed the senior debt portion of the capital stack on one of the largest single hotel mixed-use projects in the country -- and one bound to be a "Green" project at that! The complex construction loan transaction was for JMBM client, HSH Nordbank AG, a leading credit institution headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and particularly renowned for very large construction loans on luxury hotel projects. [For JMBM's current hotel financing resources, please click here. (www.MeetTheMoney.com) and for other conferences, click here (www.jmbm.com/ghg/conferences).

This is a significant transaction for several reasons.

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Posted In: Condo Hotels, Green Hotels, Hotel Finance − Hotel Debt & Hotel Equity , Hotel Mixed-Use, Lifestyle Hotels

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Posted On: April 1, 2007 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Hotel Lawyer: The new "LIFESTYLE" hotel brands are changing the hotel industry and hotel mixed-use. Miraval: The health and wellness lifestyle brand.

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
2 April 2007

Hospitality Lawyer on the new "LIFESTYLE" hotel brands. What is a hotel lifestyle brand? That is a great question and one with some profound implications that we will explore a bit today. I would like to do that using Miraval -- one of the new lifestyle brands -- as something of a "case study."

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Posted On: March 22, 2007 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Hospitality Lawyer on "LIFESTYLE" hotel mixed-use development. Are Valencia and Miraval the new paradigms for "lifestyle" hotel mixed-use?

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
23 March 2007

Hospitality Lawyer on "LIFESTYLE" hotel mixed-use development. Hotel mixed-use has emerged as one of the few ways hotel developers may be able to make a new development economically feasible, with skyrocketing construction costs. It has also become one of the hottest things going as developers of other real estate uses (shopping centers, office, retail, residential and entertainment) discover the big "IRR Premiums" that may be harvested from well-planned and tightly integrated hotel mixed-use projects. (See, my earlier postings on www.HotelLawBlog.com from The Hotel Developers Conference® in Rancho Mirage. about how hotel mixed-use is the pass key to unlocking new development and bigger profits, and the perspectives of the most successful leaders in hotel mixed-use today)

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Posted On: March 19, 2007 by the JMBM Global Hospitality Group®

Helping Owners Strike a Fair Deal: 5 Milestones Marking The Road To Success For Hotel Management Agreements

by Jim Butler and Robert Braun
19 March 2007

In order to consummate any substantial business transaction, there are inevitably some "challenges" to overcome. Hotel management agreements are no exception: in part because of their complexity, and in part because hotel management agreements typically transfer effective control over valuable assets for several decades, and their terms can easily enhance -- or diminish -- the value of hotel by a staggering amount.

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About the Authors

Jim Butler

Jim Butler is recognized as one of the top hotel lawyers in the world. He devotes 100% of his practice to hospitality, representing hotel owners, developers and lenders. Jim leads the Global Hospitality Group®—a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe.
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Robert Braun

Robert Braun is a partner in JMBM's Corporate Department and a senior member of JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. Bob represents owners in both transactional and operational issues. He advises clients with respect to business formation, financing, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. He has represented hotel owners in the negotiation of several hundred management agreements, as well as spa management and franchise agreements. Bob also advises hotel owners regarding telecommunications, software, internet, e-commerce, data processing and outsourcing agreements. To read Bob's articles, go to www.HotelLawBlog.com and select "Management Agreements." For more information, please contact Bob Braun at 310.785.5331 or rbraun@jmbm.com.

Marta Fernandez

Marta Fernandez is a partner in JMBM's Employment and Labor Department and a senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. As a management labor lawyer with more than 20 years of experience, Marta specializes in representing hospitality industry clients in all aspects of labor and employment including labor-management relations such as union prevention, collective bargaining for single as well as multi-employer bargaining units, neutrality agreements and defense of unfair labor practice charges before the NLRB. She defends employers in administrative and litigation claims, such as employee claims of sexual harassment and discrimination and counsels clients in preventative strategies such as executive training, arbitration enforcement, and policies and procedures. To read Marta's articles, go to www.HotelLawBlog.com and select "Labor & Employment." For more information, please contact Marta Fernandez at 310.201.3534 or at mfernandez@jmbm.com.

Catherine DeBono Holmes

Catherine DeBono Holmes is a partner in JMBM's Corporate Department and a senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. Cathy assists hotel clients with hotel management and franchise agreements, purchase and sale transactions, and condo hotel regime structuring. She has taken hotel owners through complex RFP processes involving all the major hotel brands. She has significant expertise in condo hotels and advises clients in the specific business and legal aspects of condo hotel regime structuring and documentation, including CC&Rs, HOA docs, unit management agreements, shared facilities agreements, rental management agreement programs and securities compliance matters (structuring, documentation and training). To access Cathy's articles on www.HotelLawBlog.com, click on the topics "Condo Hotels" or "Green Hotels" For more information, please contact Cathy Holmes at 310.201.3553 or cholmes@jmbm.com.

Guy Maisnik

Guy Maisnik is a partner in JMBM's Real Estate Department and a senior member of JMBM's Global Hospitality Group® -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. Guy's deep and broad transactional practice includes complex real estate finance and venture capital transactions, including project finance, commercial finance, leveraged leasing and real estate acquisitions. He assists clients with development, leasing and disposition, loan portfolio acquisitions, loan and debt restructure, workouts and real estate exchanges. Go to www.HotelLawBlog.com for current information in these areas. For more information, please contact Guy Maisnik at 310.201.3588 or mgm@jmbm.com.

David Sudeck

David Sudeck is of Counsel in JMBM's Real Estate Department and a senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. David has significant experience in the vacation ownership arena, focusing on the formation and registration of condominiums, timeshares and fractional interest regimes. He negotiates hotel, spa and restaurant management agreements, and assists client in the development, acquisition, sale and leasing of hotels, golf courses and restaurants. For David's take on current issues in the timeshare arena, go to www.HotelLawBlog.com and click on the topic, "Timeshare." For more information, please contact David Sudeck at 310.201.3518 or dsudeck @jmbm.com.

Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan is a partner in JMBM's Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructurings Group and a senior member of the Global Hospitality Group(r) -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. Bob represents lenders, special servicers, hard money lenders, community banks, national banking associations, distressed debt investors, and equity investors, positioning them for the best possible outcome by acting expeditiously to preserve value and increase cash flow. His industry experience and his knowledge of the current capital markets -- where distressed assets often include complex deal structures and securitized loans -- allows him to bring creative and effective strategies to the table. When aggressive litigation is the best strategy, he is a vigorous and effective advocate for his clients. Bob represented the securitized lender in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed by the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, and in the subsequent negotiations and successful sale of the loan to a third party. The lender -- acting by and through GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation as special servicer -- was the holder of a $60 million loan secured by a Deed of Trust on the Clift Hotel. He has also served as counsel to CapMark, J.E. Robert Company, Inc., AMRESCO Management Inc. and Midland Loan Servicer in their capacity as special servicers on troubled hotel loans in CMBS pools. For more information, contact Robert Kaplan at 415.984.9673 or rkaplan@jmbm.com.

Martin Orlick

Martin Orlick is a partner in JMBM's Real Estate Department and a senior member of JMBM's Global Hospitality Group(r) -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. Marty specializes in representing hospitality industry clients in Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance and defense. He has represented more than 300 businesses in ADA issues, many of them hotels and restaurants, as well as hotel mixed-use properties. Marty is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and a frequent speaker on the ADA and other topics. To read Marty's articles, go to www.HotelLawBlog.com and select "ADA." For more information, please contact Marty Orlick at 415.984.9667 or morlick@jmbm.com.

James Abrams

James Abrams is Of Counsel at JMBM and is a senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group -- a team of 50 seasoned professionals with more than $60 billion of hotel transactional experience, involving more than 1,000 properties located around the globe. Jim has served the hospitality industry for 40 years and specializes in lodging and hospitality law and in representing and advising trade associations and other non-profit entities. Jim has significant experience in government affairs at the national level, the state level – including the California Legislature and scores of state agencies – and with local governments and agencies. He has authored successful ballot measures and scores of bills for his clients. Jim served as the President and CEO of the California Hotel & Lodging Association from January 1, 1991 through December 31, 2008 and is currently an adjunct professor in the Hospitality Industry Management Program at the University of San Francisco. He is a frequent speaker and writer on all aspects of the law relating to the lodging and hospitality industries, and he is the author of the book Laws Pertaining to the California Innkeeper, which is published by the California Hotel & Lodging Association. To read Jim’s articles, go to www.HotelLawBlog.com. For more information, please contact Jim Abrams at (415) 398-8080 or jabrams@jmbm.com.

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