On February 27, I had the privilege of presenting an oral argument before the Chief Judge and two Associate Judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. I am grateful to my client for the opportunity and look forward to the court’s decision. –Bob Lannan
By Bob Lannan I was privileged to attend this year’s ALIS Law conference in Los Angeles, which ended yesterday. The ALIS development conference (“Big ALIS”) is continuing, but I decided to sit that one out this year. ALIS Law has a policy that its panel discussions are “off the record.” Attendees are asked not toContinue Reading
Click Here for the fourth of a series of PowerPoint presentations on hotel management agreements. In this presentation, I discuss various state laws that affect the legal relationship between a hotel owner and management company, particularly with regard to the owner’s power (or lack thereof) to terminate an HMA without cause. -Bob Lannan
By Robert W. Lannan My most significant project in 2024 was the reorganization of a financially distressed corporate client under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. It had been years since I had represented a debtor in Chapter 11, and this was my first venture in Chapter 11’s still-new Subchapter V, for reorganization ofContinue Reading
Click here for my third presentation on hotel management agreements (HMAs), in which I discuss the different legal relationships of hotel owners and management companies.
As we begin the week of Thanksgiving, I want to share five reasons why, in my humble opinion, Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. 1. Thanksgiving is both a civic and a religious (inter-religious) holiday. The Pilgrim settlers who celebrated the earliest Thanksgivings were undoubtedly motivated to give thanks by the same SeparatistContinue Reading
Click here for my second presentation on subjects that frequently surface in negotiation of hotel management agreements (HMAs), in which I discuss the financial interests and business models of hotel owners and management companies. –Bob Lannan
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) that invest in hotels frequently require, in any management agreement with a hotel management company that operates a hotel, some opportunity to participate in negotiations with any union that represents the management company’s employees at the hotel. This year, two U.S. Senators and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service made aContinue Reading
This September, as the Co-Chair of the annual Hotel & Lodging Legal Summit at Georgetown Law, I was privileged to welcome Gwen Mills, the International Union President of UNITE HERE, as the keynote speaker of our 11th annual conference. Ms. Mills was interviewed by Professor David Sherwyn, the Academic Director of the Center for InnovativeContinue Reading
Click here for the first of a series of presentations in which I will discuss subjects that are frequently discussed in negotiations of hotel management agreements (HMAs). I intend the series to be a primer for professionals who have not negotiated many HMAs. For more experienced professionals, I hope it will be a valuable refresher. Continue Reading
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