With more than 100 lawyers throughout our offices, DLA Piper's global Hospitality and Leisure sector advises owners, managers, franchisors, developers and lenders with respect to hotels and other hospitality and leisure businesses around the world. We offer the extraordinary breadth and depth of our core practice groups, including Corporate, Real Estate, Finance, Franchise and Distribution, Human Resources, Litigation and Regulatory, IP and IT, to serve the needs of our clients in the sector. Our industry focus and experience enable us to provide first-class service to our clients in connection with their local and international investments and operations.
The Global Hospitality and Leisure sector covers the following businesses:
- Hotels, including condominium hotels, apartment hotels, and fractional and shared ownership schemes
- Resorts, including mixed use, leisure, timeshare, interval ownership, private residence clubs and country clubs
- Serviced apartments
- Leisure operations, including golf courses, theme and amusement parks, health and fitness facilities, spas, gyms, leisure complexes, cinemas, marinas, pubs, nightclubs, bingo halls, casinos and gambling establishments and bowling alleys
- Hospitality and catering operations such as motorway and roadside service areas and conference locations