Hospitality and Tourism

Large, dynamic, and continuously growing, the Hospitality and Tourism industry operates in a highly competitive environment encompassing a broad range of businesses within the food service, travel, and lodging sectors. These include restaurants and commercial food service providers, airlines, cruise lines and other transportation services, as well as hotels, resorts, tourist destinations, attractions, and venues for meetings and events. Across our region, the hospitality and leisure industry continues to expand at a remarkable pace. This constant evolution requires businesses to continually innovate in order to strengthen their market position and deliver world-class quality. As a multidisciplinary team, with a dedicated team leader for each practice area, we provide comprehensive solutions to a wide range of legal and business challenges, including tax, corporate, commercial, Intellectual Property, labor, environmental, and antitrust matters. We assist clients in structuring tax-efficient and legally sound investments for new ventures and business opportunities, as well as in franchise transactions and the acquisition of hospitality and tourism businesses, including hotel chains, hotel operators and owners, travel agencies, transportation companies, and cruise operators. We also advise on asset acquisitions involving real estate, aircraft, and vessels, as well as international business expansions through international tax planning and legal structuring, contract drafting and negotiation, and coordination with leading law firms across multiple jurisdictions.

In our region, the hotel and leisure industry is growing daily. This constant evolution drives it to continually reinvent itself to achieve world-class positioning and quality. As a multidisciplinary team, with a designated team coordinator for each area, we identify and provide solutions to a wide range of issues, from tax, corporate, and commercial matters to intellectual property, labor, environmental, and antitrust issues.

We work with tax and legal investment designs for starting new businesses and investments; with franchises or purchases of companies in the Hospitality and Tourism sector in general: hotel chains, hotel operators or owners, travel agencies, transportation companies, cruise operators; with asset acquisitions: real estate, airplanes, boats; and with international business expansions: International tax planning and legal design, drafting and negotiation of contracts and coordination with other international firms.