Hospitality

Support from specialist lawyers with more than 30 years’experience

In the hospitality sector, the team provides assistance in overseeing site management to:

• owners and operators of hotels, tourist residences and restaurants,
• real estate and/or hotel investment funds,
• private and public investors in hotels, tourist accommodation and restaurants.

The team provides analysis and pragmatic advice in the following areas:

Drafting and negotiation of hotel management contracts, commercial leases, lease-management contracts and franchises,

Assistance with commercial lease renewals, revisions, enforcement and eviction procedures,

• Drafting and negotiation of hotel management contracts, commercial leases, lease-management contracts and franchises,
• Assistance with commercial lease renewals, revisions, enforcement and eviction procedures,
• Advice on renovation works/construction/delivery of hotels and other tourist accommodation,
• Litigation in matters of commercial leases, construction law and real estate sales.

Hotels and the law

Supporting new hotel and restaurant projects

Our team can help with the development of new tourist accommodation and catering projects.

After carrying out feasibility studies or market surveys, clients often involve our teams in their decision-making process. This enables them to intervene at a very early stage in their legal and tax structures, if necessary in collaboration with other hotel consultants, their technical and accounting advisors and their notaries, depending on the nature of the project.

How we can help

• Assistance with purchases of land and works, assistance with construction leases or leases in future state of completion and commercial leases,
• Analysis of the feasibility with regard to legal and local planning constraints (easements, planning regulations to be complied with for the construction/renovation and operation of a facility),
• Tax optimization of the acquisition structure or group
• Choice of the best structure

Customized advisory and litigation support in France and abroad

• Transactions in France and abroad by tender or private contract,
• Legal, tax and social audits,
• Drafting of promises to sell, representations and warranties, contracts for the sale of shares or goodwill,
• Tax optimization of transactions,
• Drafting and negotiation of loan agreements,
• Registration of securities (pledges, mortgages),
• Real estate and equipment leasing, lease-back transactions,
• Mergers, demergers, contributions and group restructuring
• Labour and social security law
• Intellectual property, personal data protection, GDPR

Litigation practice areas involve the following:

• Commercial leases, lease-management contracts, hotel management contracts, etc,
• Construction work, renovations, delivery with reservations and builders’ liability,
• Business relations with suppliers and service providers, termination of contract,
• Settlement of claims of all kinds, relations with insurance companies, compensation claims,
• Post-sale litigation,
• Enforcement of representations and warranties.

Pre-insolvency relief: ad hoc representative and conciliation

Our team can help with the development of new tourist accommodation and catering projects.

These two amicable settlements have a common objective: to prevent financial, legal or economic difficulties for hotels and restaurants.

The principle is as follows: to establish a framework for negotiation with the company’s main creditors.