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Hotels

Our cross-firm hotels team provides the full range of services across the sector, from luxury high-end resorts, hotel chains, owners, managers, franchisors and franchisees to businesses supporting the hotel industry

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Our Service

We have a long track record in the hospitality industry: we advised on the first purpose-built luxury hotel in the UK, The Savoy in 1886, and from then we have not looked back.

We are regularly involved in high profile transactions in the UK acting for leading hotel investors, developers and operators, cinema chains, e-sports operators and expanding restaurant chains and private members clubs.

Our strength in transactional work means that we can advise clients on the structuring, financing and successful execution of acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and refinancings. More broadly, we support clients across all areas of commercial activity including planning, development, management, franchising, and operational, promotional and contentious matters.

Our sector specialists help investors, developers and end-users with the acquisition, development, construction and funding of hospitality related developments, both on single assets and across large portfolios both domestically and internationally. In all these activities, our tax team provides advice and expertise to ensure that transactions are structured and managed tax efficiently, particularly in relation to property tax.

Related Expertise

  • real estate development including planning, construction, environmental and rights of light advice
  • real estate leasing and management
  • joint ventures and investments
  • management and operating contracts
  • franchise agreements and concessions
  • asset acquisitions and disposals
  • M&A
  • structured and debt finance
  • funds and regulatory
  • commercial agreements and intellectual property
  • tax structuring and planning
  • technology and e-commerce
  • management buy-outs
  • sale and lease / manage back

FAQ

Properly understanding the return on your investment is essential for hotel developers, or purchasers of completed hotels, since hotels require constant maintenance and renovations - an important tactic in the industry - involve reinvesting significant amounts of profits back into the business.

Hotels can be funded from any number of sources: private banks, specialist lenders, Angel investors, a commercial mortgage, crowdfunding, conventional bank loans, and even government loans. Unconventional funding sources and small-scale projects are gaining traction.

Take time to understand the market in the area you’re looking at. Consider whether you want to manage the business yourself, or if it will be profitable to hire a manager or management company for a small hotel. Consider the hotel’s financial standing, location, size, and potential profitability carefully before purchase. Begin your business plan to raise the finance, and be cautious about purchasing a hotel out of administration.

How can we partner with you?

Fladgate has always been structured around deep relationships, creating true partnerships with clients.