Hospitality Law

Hospitality Law

As a result of our relationships within and knowledge of the industry, our seasoned attorneys are equipped to offer sophisticated and practical solutions to our hospitality clients.

Our knowledge and expertise comes from an involvement in numerous major hospitality matters, including development and construction of hotels; environmental; zoning and land use issues; construction contracts; management and operating agreements; employment  operations, litigation and administrative proceedings as well as assisting in financing and leasing.

Berliner Cohen works with California Restaurant Association as well as clients with California Hotel and Lodging to provide legal support to its members as well as assist in tracking legislation that affects the hospitality industry.

Representative cases:

• Represented Suntrips in complicated litigation and related recoveries from Rich Air Charter Company
• Represented a REIT in a renovations litigation of a mixed use project consisting of 1,200 residential units, 650,000 square feet of retail space and a 250-room hotel
• Represented a San Jose restaurant in partnership dissolution issues
• Successfully represented numerous hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues in litigation and class actions.
• Assisted in preparation of licensing and franchise agreements.
• Successfully represented restauranter in nuisance dispute with City.

For more information, please contact Christine H. Long at christine.long@berliner.com or Jay Landrum at jay.landrum@berliner.com.