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Hotel Management Agreements: Navigating Fees, Exclusivity, Approval Rights, Finance Provisions, Brand Management

A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

1:00pm-2:30pm EST, 10:00am-11:30am PST

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, October 18, 2024

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE course will cover topics of central importance to counsel preparing or reviewing hotel management agreements from a range of perspectives--whether as counsel to the owner, operator, lender, or potential acquirer.

Description

In the world of hotel company M&As and IPOs, the perception is that hotel management agreements are annuities for operators and a yoke for owners to endure. How does the traditional perception square with how lawyers think through and negotiate management agreements on behalf of owners and operators?

Understanding the particulars of hotel management agreements is essential to gauging hotel value and hotel financing. Whether representing owners or operators, counsel must understand the dynamic that gives rise to the incentives embodied in a hotel management agreement and how case law impacts an owner's ability to terminate a management agreement.

Listen as our authoritative panel analyzes evolving trends in hotel management agreements and critical terms such as duration, exclusivity, termination, and finance provisions. The panel will discuss the core topics and will impart best practices for negotiating the agreement.

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Outline

  1. The base fee, the incentive fees, and all those other charges
  2. Key money
  3. Financing: lender hot buttons
  4. Approval rights every owner should have
  5. Performance tests: make it meaningful
  6. The brand management agreement: technical services and pre-opening agreements

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • How can counsel best balance incentives for owners and operators?
  • How are the fees structured to achieve the objectives of both parties?
  • How do counsel for lenders think through management agreement risks?
  • What kinds of criteria are most relevant for gauging performance?
  • How might one-off purchasers and portfolio purchasers in leveraged buyouts conduct due diligence of in-place hotel management agreements?

Faculty

 Blount, Jay
Jay T. Blount

Member, Chair of Hospitality Group
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

Mr. Blount is an experienced transactional member, who specializes in representing owners, developers, and managers of...  |  Read More

McCarthy, Allison
Allison McCarthy

Partner
Holland & Knight

In addition to a national commercial real estate practice, Ms. McCarthy has advised owners, investors and hotel...  |  Read More

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