In Extenso Avocats employs a team of lawyers specialising in tourism, hotel et restaurant sectors working in France and abroad.
Drawing on our hotel and restaurant industry expertise, we advise and represent small businesses, medium-sized enterprises and larger operators, both nationally and internationally. These include:
Our teams are highly experienced in all areas of hospitality, meaning our advice is based on hands-on industry knowledge. We offer practical assistance in the following areas:
Having conducted a prior feasibility or market study for the most part, our clients seek to involve us in their thought process. If need be, In Extenso Avocats can advise on legal and tax arrangements in the very early stages of a project, working where necessary with the client’s hotel consultants, technical advisors, accountants and solicitors. We offer advice in the following areas:
In Extenso Avocats assists clients with hotel and restaurant acquisitions, sales and financing.
Our lawyers offer custom expertise and support at all key stages of a strategy or project’s implementation, both in France and abroad. Our clients appreciate the flexibility and reactivity of our firm, as well as its experience in the following fields:
We claim to be hands-on lawyers with proven experience in all types of hospitality, restaurant and property litigation. What could be more reassuring for clients, then, than calling on a practised litigator to ensure legal effectiveness in the event a case goes to court?
Our litigation lawyers frequently deal with the following issues:
In Extenso Avocats advises on hotel and restaurant asset monitoring and restructuring.
Our clients trust us and seek our legal and tax advice. We apply our expertise on a case-by-case basis and can rapidly bring on board our lawyers with regard to:
This list is not exhaustive.
Nb. Depending on the complexity of the issue (notably issues involving property and construction, or acquisitions and restructuring), our teams work closely with specialised consultants at In Extenso Tourisme, Culture & Hôtellerie, for example, enabling us to offer pragmatic advice.
A proverb states that prudence does not avoid all misfortune, but a lack of prudence never fails to attract it. This is why due diligence is a vital step in buying a hotel. In a hotel acquisition context, the term “due diligence” refers to the investigations carried out by the prospective buyer. These investigations focus both on the hotel assets (i.e. the operating building as a whole) and the company that owns these assets or operates the hotel. Due diligence must also enable the buyer to fully appreciate the hotel’s business, understand its structure, environment and market, and analyse the long-term viability of their project…
Commercial leases, as well as hospitality and restaurant contract law, have been disrupted by the new regulations in France, applicable since 2014. Are these major shifts in tenancy relations in line with the economic challenges facing the French hospitality sector ?…
In France, the negotiation to determine whether the hotel’s employees are employed by the owner or the operator is a contractual key matter. French owners require more frequently to pass the responsibility of employment to the operator, which has significant consequences on the negotiating and on the drafting of hotel management agreements…
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