Hotel owners and managers are well aware of the nearly daily need for legal counsel, and as such, request assistance from our hospitality department on a routine basis. We accompany our clients in the hospitality sector throughout their legal endeavors, representing them in legal interactions with all relevant authorities, including the Israel Land Authority, the Ministry of Tourism, local authorities, and various planning and construction entities, as well as with their suppliers, employees and guests.
Our firm’s hospitality department represents and provides counsel to clients across a wide range of sectors, while placing particular emphasis on the hotel segment.
Our services include purchases and sales as well as rental transactions, establishing of hotels, issues of management, repeat leasing, business registration, tenders, insurance, and other processes. We also provide ongoing legal counsel pertaining to varying commercial agreements, including collaboration agreements, marketing agreements, licensing agreements, and contracting agreements, amongst others.
In addition, our department accompanies clients when dealing with labor law issues, while considering the unique collective agreements and arrangements that are unique to the hotel industry.
The department’s team is highly experienced in providing legal counsel and representing clients from the hotel, tourism and leisure sectors in Israel, having represented several hotel chains as well as boutique hotels. The team represents well-known nationwide chains, including the luxury hotels owned by the public Alrov Group, including two luxury hotels in Jerusalem ranked by Conde Nast Traveler as one of the most prestigious hotels in the Middle East, as well as three highly-revered luxury hotels in Amsterdam, London and Paris. One of these, Hotel Lutetia in Paris, has earned the status of “palace”.
Our vast and extraordinary experience, along with the firm’s cross-department collaboration, grants our clients an all-encompassing and continuous response to all their legal needs – under one roof. This includes issues pertaining to taxation, class actions, financing and collateral, corporations, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, antitrust issues, consumer protection, commercial litigation, and environmental protection law, amongst others. All cross-department collaborations are headed and managed by the department’s team of attorneys, who maintain continuous communications, and offer their personal support to each of our clients.
