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Travel, Leisure & Hospitality Industry

We advise clients on all aspects of operations issues, development projects and strategic issues for travel, leisure and hospitality matters.

Our experience in operations issues includes:

• Airlines, Cruise Lines, and Tour Operators

• Hotel and Resort Management

• Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

• Restaurant, Food and Beverage

• Corporate Jet Matters

• Advertising Compliance

• Intellectual Property

• Marketing, Distribution and Franchising

• Privacy

• Employment and Labor

With respect to development projects, our skill set includes:

• Project Development and Leasing

• Construction

• Land Use, Zoning and Environmental

We also advise clients on a variety of strategic issues, including:

• Purchase and Sale/Mergers and Acquisitions

• Financing

• Tax

• Global Sourcing

• Bankruptcy

Pillsbury has a longstanding commitment to the travel, leisure and hospitality industry. Our attorneys handle operations issues, development projects and strategic issues for airlines, hotels and resorts, cruise lines, spas, casinos, tour operators, online travel companies, and large travel agencies. The firm’s Travel, Leisure & Hospitality industry team has more than 120 attorneys located both on the East and West coasts, as well as in our international offices. This team provides our clients with comprehensive legal solutions and unmatched industry knowledge.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Our Travel, Leisure & Hospitality industry team draws on the firm’s depth and 140 years of experience across a wide range of matters. This team is interdisciplinary, encompassing every practice area needed by our broad client base. We find that our team approach enables us to craft multi-pronged strategies that lead to effective and value-added legal solutions. Our areas of experience include:

Airlines, Cruise Lines, and Tour Operators

We represent U.S. and foreign airlines, cruise lines, tour operators, and travel companies regarding a wide variety of commercial, corporate and regulatory matters. In particular, we advise clients on operational and government regulatory matters involving the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and Transportation Services Administration (TSA); as well as commercial negoti-ations and disputes, licensing and finance matters, safety and maintenance issues, and service agreements.

Hotel and Resort Management

We represent leading owners and operators in connection with the operation of hotels and resorts, including condo-hotel, fractional interest, timeshare and mixed-use hotel/residential projects. We are particularly experienced with respect to the negotiation of management agreements, many involving leading brands known throughout the world to luxury travelers. We also negotiate condominium marketing agreements, pre-opening services agreements and technical services agreements for hotel and resort projects.

Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

Our executive compensation and employee benefits practice group attorneys handle a broad range of executive compensa-tion and employee benefit plan compliance and design matters. Our practice group includes attorneys who are recognized leaders in their field and who are very experienced in dealing with the complex tax law and ERISA rules that apply to these compensation arrangements. Representatives of the group are regularly included as part of the deal team for purchases or sales and M&A transactions.

Restaurant, Food and Beverage

We represent a wide range of restaurant and hotel chains, wineries, packaged food companies and individual restaura-teurs and franchisees with respect to restaurant, food and beverage issues. Our experience includes alcoholic beverage licensing, especially for the acquisition of restaurants or hotels.

Corporate Jet Matters

We offer services relative to corporate flight departments, charter operators, aircraft management companies, fractional ownership programs and private business jet ownership.

Advertising Compliance

We review print, broadcast and online advertising for compliance with federal and state advertising regulations, with specific experience in the use of background, elevator, on-hold, and live music.

Intellectual Property

Our attorneys advise clients on developing successful and comprehensive intellectual property strategies. We have extensive experience advising clients on copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition and false advertising

Marketing, Distribution and Franchising

We handle projects for all forms of marketing and distribution, including dealer and distributor networks, franchise systems, sales agents, direct sales and the Internet. In particular, we negotiate marketing, distribution and franchise agreements and perform diligence for the purchase and sale of businesses engaged in marketing, distribution or franchising. For franchise systems, our work also includes preparing franchise registration and disclosure documents and providing ongoing advice on how franchise laws regulate relationships between franchisors and franchisees.

Bankruptcy

We represent a wide range of sophisticated clients dealing with complex financial distress situations, and we pride ourselves on providing practical advice that keeps our clients’ economic interest foremost in mind. Our clients include creditors, debtors and other participants in the spectrum of matters related to troubled loans and investments and financially distressed entities.

Privacy

We assist our clients on how they collect, store, use and share data about their customers, guests and passengers. We counsel clients on both federal and state laws, and on compliance with the European Union’s data-protection laws.

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Employment and Labor

We counsel clients on a wide range of workplace issues, including personnel policies and reductions in force. We defend employers against all types of charges, including wage/hour class actions, discrimination, wrongful discharge, FMLA violation and sexual harassment.

Project Development and Leasing

We regularly represent developers, owners, operators and investors in the structuring and negotiation of development, disposition and other agreements for all types of leisure and hospitality projects, including condo-hotel, fractional interest, timeshare and mixed-use hotel/residential projects. We also represent landlords and tenants in lease negotiations, and hotel operators with respect to brand standards and other approval rights over third-party leases for spas, restaurants and other facilities.

Construction

Our construction law practice involves negotiating architec-ture, engineering, procurement, construction and financing contracts, including those involved in public works and public contracting matters. We also assist in the development of financing strategies for construction projects and provide counsel on reducing tax exposure and implementing risk management strategies.

Global Sourcing

Our global sourcing practice represents airlines, hotel chains, cruise lines, and their associated computer reservation systems in sophisticated information technology outsourcing and business process outsourcing transactions. The practice includes experienced attorneys, business and technical consultants, as well as financial analysts.

Land Use, Zoning and Environmental

We handle all aspects of zoning, land use and environmental processes within federal, state and local jurisdictions, such as general plans, zoning, development permits, environmental impact reports and development exactions and conditions. We also have strong knowledge of specialized land use laws affecting historic preservation approvals, transferable development rights, coastal zones, wetlands, timber lands, municipal and solid waste facilities, and endangered species.

Purchase and Sale/M&A

We handle the acquisition and disposition of individual properties and multi-property portfolios, especially for hotels and resorts. We also handle company-wide M&A transactions, such as acquisitions of online travel companies and hotel franchisors. Our deal teams emphasize members with industry experience—our deal teams are not the exclusive domain of real estate or corporate attorneys. This approach allows greater insights into diligence and risk-allocation negotiations based upon industry knowledge.

Financing

We handle all varieties of financing transactions for properties and companies. We represent lenders and borrowers on secured and unsecured loans, including acquisition, construc-tion, syndicated and securitized loans. We also represent companies and underwriters in private and public securities offerings, as well as joint venture transactions. We are routinely ranked among the leading REIT law firms nationally.

Tax

Our tax practice undertakes domestic and international tax planning and provides advice in a variety of transactions. When disputes arise with taxing authorities, we handle all stages at both the administrative and judicial levels.

About Pillsbury

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is a leading international law firm with offices around the world and a particular focus on the energy & natural resources, financial services, real estate & construction, and technology sectors. Recognized by Financial Times as one of the most innovative law firms, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across disciplines and their unsurpassed commercial awareness.

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