In the hospitality business, providing your guests and customers with world-class service is always the goal. We share your focus on client satisfaction, which has earned us recognition for our legal skills and client services. For our clients, we work side-by-side with them through the entire life cycle of their asset, negotiating a full range of agreements and helping them realize and protect the value of their assets and brands.

Foley’s multidisciplinary Hospitality & Leisure Industry Team prides itself on delivering industry-specific services related to golf courses, clubs, hotels and restaurants, resorts, and timeshare/fractional ownership properties. Our lawyers have served as industry lobbyists, drafted legislation on behalf of the industry, and currently hold leadership positions for relevant committees on several trade associations. This experience is utilized to ensure the highest quality of legal assistance with day-to-day operational issues, as well as your most difficult legal challenges.

We understand that the hospitality industry has multiple components and we have organized our practice to address all facets of the industry. As you would expect from a large international law firm, our multidisciplinary team of attorneys is your single source for answers to any of your most pressing legal issues.

Contacts

Clifford J. Risman

Chair

crisman@foley.com

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Represented Cacique Hotel La Penca in the negotiation of the first Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts property in Costa Rica

Foley represented Cacique Hotel La Penca in the negotiation of the first Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts property in Costa Rica. Cacique Hotel La Penca is the developer of a large mixed-use resort including several hotels and residential developments in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, which is located on a peninsula with unobstructed ocean views. Waldorf Astoria Guanacaste (expected to open in 2025) will offer 190 guest rooms and 25 Waldorf Astoria-branded residences. Foley attorneys Cliff Risman and Dan Bachrach handled the negotiations with Hilton on all aspects of the Branding and Management Agreement and Residential Marketing License Agreement. In addition, the Foley team negotiated a separate broker and marketing agreement with the selected real estate marketing firm. Cacique Hotel La Penca is a cross border joint venture with multiple US-based and international groups including Revolution Resorts.

Represented Cacique Hotel La Penca in the negotiation of the first Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts property in Costa Rica

Foley represented Cacique Hotel La Penca in the negotiation of the first Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts property in Costa Rica. Cacique Hotel La Penca is the developer of a large mixed-use resort including several hotels and residential developments in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, which is located on a peninsula with unobstructed ocean views. Waldorf Astoria Guanacaste (expected to open in 2025) will offer 190 guest rooms and 25 Waldorf Astoria-branded residences. Foley attorneys Cliff Risman and Dan Bachrach handled the negotiations with Hilton on all aspects of the Branding and Management Agreement and Residential Marketing License Agreement. In addition, the Foley team negotiated a separate broker and marketing agreement with the selected real estate marketing firm. Cacique Hotel La Penca is a cross border joint venture with multiple US-based and international groups including Revolution Resorts.

Represented an opportunistic private investment manager in providing rescue capital to, an acquiring a controlling interest in the owner of a luxury boutique hotel as well as the negotiation of a new management agreement for the hotel and the repositioning and rebranding of the hotel and preparations for the re-opening of the hotel.

Represented an opportunistic private investment manager in providing rescue capital to, an acquiring a controlling interest in the owner of a luxury boutique hotel as well as the negotiation of a new management agreement for the hotel and the repositioning and rebranding of the hotel and preparations for the re-opening of the hotel.