13 May 2011
Hotel Lawyer with updates on hotel cap rates, values and transactions from JMBM’s Meet the Money® 2011
Hotel cap rates, hotel values and hotel transaction data are some of the most sought after information as transactions gain momentum in 2011. Fortunately, Suzanne Mellen of HVS is a real expert on these issues and she gave a wonderful presentation on all this at Meet the Money® last week. Here it is for those who missed it.
10 May 2011
Hotel Lawyer with nuggets from JMBM’s Meet the Money® 2011
For all of our industry friends — whether or not you were able to attend Meet the Money® 2011 in Los Angeles last week — we will be posting on the Hotel Law Blog some of the invaluable information delivered by industry thought leaders at the conference. In the coming days and weeks, look for PowerPoint presentations, summaries of panel discussions and, of course, commentary. But today, we will whet your appetite with some sound bites — nuggets of insight, analysis and humor — from some of the best minds in the industry.
These are some of the questions that continued to surface through various panel discussions and hallway conversations during the conference. For some pertinent nuggets, read on.
Hotel Lawyers at Meet the Money®. It was nice to wake up this morning to find JMBM’s hotel finance conference in a Wall Street Journal blog article by Kris Hudson, along with quotes from conference speakers Marty Collins of Gathouse Capital, Jan Freitag of Smith Travel Research, Robert Alter of Sunstone Hotel Investors, and Greg Mount of Richfield Hospitality.
We will be sharing some of the great information presented at the conference over the coming days, but if you missed this article, please take a look!
5 May 2011
Hotel Lawyer from Meet the Money® – Hotel industry think tank’s top 10 challenges for 2011
I am privileged to be one of the co-chairs of the Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC) along with Mike Cahill and Sean Hennessey. LIIC is the hotel industry “think tank” whose membership owns or operates many billions of hotel investments, and involves all aspects of the industry.
LIIC surveys its membership each year and first releases the results — The LIIC Top 10 — at JMBM’s annual Meet the Money® conference. Mike Cahill, president and founder of HREC – Hospitality Real Estate Counselors (www.hrec.com) compiled the survey and delivered its results to the 350 participants at the conference.
30 April 2011
JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® will kick off the 21st annual Meet the Money® hospitality finance conference by hosting a pre-conference roundtable among hotel industry leaders.
The Hotel Business® 2011 Executive Roundtable–Capital Ideas: Financing Solutions For Opportunistic Dealmakers will take place Monday, May 2 at the Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles.
Meet the Money kicks off Monday!!! And we have a way to help you stay connected . . .
Social media can help you connect with conference delegates, speakers and sponsors, making it easy to follow up afterward and continue talking about deals and opportunities. Use the hashtag (a simple way to group posts about the same topic) #MTM2011 in any of your tweets about the conference to let us know what you’re thinking about–what presentations and ideas you find useful, what you’ll be applying to your transactions in the next few years, and how you’re interpreting the research our experts have compiled. Join the conversation! We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
For more information about Meet the Money® 2011, visit www.MeetTheMoney.com
31 March 2011
Debt and equity financing for hotels is back! Hotel transactions are rolling again!
And the Global Hospitality Group® of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) has announced the 2011 Meet the Money® hotel finance conference to explore the latest opportunities in the capital stack with “Bridging the Gap and Facilitating the Flow of Capital.”
We hope you can join us May 2-4, 2011, at the Sheraton Gateway in Los Angeles for this important conference. Here is how to get all the information on time, place, program, speakers, and registration information. It is time to sign up now.
09 May 2010
Hotel Lawyer with the latest information on hotel loan defaults, foreclosures, forebearances and distressed sales in California from the Atlas Hospitality Group.
07 May 2010
Hotel Lawyer with the latest reports and forecasts on the economy, capital markets and global markets from industry leader presentations at JMBM’s 20th annual hotel conference — Meet the Money® 2010.
The close correlation between the economy and the hospitality industry provides a fascinating subject. Although it is somewhat intuitive that when the economy is growing and people are being hired, more is spent on travel, lodging and leisure . . . and the other way around.
Here is an easy download link, and an embedded image for Art Adler’s presentation at Meet the Money® 2010.