01 May 2012
Hotel Lawyer in Los Angeles at Meet the Money® 2012
My staff and I are making final preparations for the 22nd Annual Meet the Money® conference and I couldn’t be more excited! This year’s theme is “Rise above the global financial tempest” and our speakers are ready to share the experience, knowledge and insight that enables them to find financing, create value and get deals done in the midst of our current global challenges.
01 June 2011
Debt is returning, equity is out looking, and we’ve passed the bottom of the trough. Why now is the time to purchase a hotel.
We promised to let you know when Hotel Business® published its coverage of its 2011 Executive Roundtable–Capital Ideas: Financing Solutions For Opportunistic Dealmakers that took place on May 2, 2011 in Los Angeles prior to Meet the Money®. The current issue of Hotel Business® just hit my mail box and the articles covering the Executive Roundtable and Meet the Money® provide some thoughtful reading.
If you do not know why now is the time to invest in a hotel, you will want to read these articles!
19 May 2011
Hotel Lawyer with fresh perspectives on the hotel industry from Smith Travel. When the hotel lawyers of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® hosted their 21st annual hotel conference recently, Jan Freitag of Smith Travel Research gave a very interesting update and some fresh perspectives on the hotel industry, including:
17 May 2011
Hospitality Lawyers on the State of the Hotel Industry.
Mark Woodworth of PKF is one of my favorite industry experts when it comes to getting meaningful information and helpful forecasts. He lived up the highest expectations at JMBM’s recent Meet the Money® conference.
Here is his slide presentation where Mark addressed a lot of critical questions we all want the answers for, including:
16 May 2011
Hotel Lawyers’ updates on capital and debt markets for hotels, transaction sales data and financings
David Loeb from RW Baird always provides such interesting hotel data. In his excellent presentation at Meet the Money®, he gave us the latest industry data showing:
And when you are studying his presentation slides, don’t stop at what looks like the end, because he has great stuff in his “Appendix: Transaction Tables.” As David said, think of this this as a “free bonus” with detailed information on:
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.