Hotels

CMS is Europe’s leading law firm for the hotel industry. Using a law firm that understands your business and your industry means you get better, more relevant advice, more efficiently. You would be working with our dedicated hotel group that has an unrivalled profile in the hotel industry and has acted on a large number of major groundbreaking transactions.

Our track record of advising on a wide range of leisure and sport transactions, coupled with our insight developed through many long-term relationships with some of the industry’s key players, means that our clients benefit from working with a team that really understands the sector and issues. You can get advice from our specialist hotel lawyers on every aspect of your hotel transactions or operations, including:

• Acquisitions and disposals
• Management agreements and leases
• Financing and structuring
• Construction and development
• Operational issues

CMS Cameron McKenna has been ranked as the number 1 legal adviser to the Hotel industry for five consecutive years by the Legal 500 (2004-2009) and has been nominated as Adviser of the Year at the Hotel Report Awards 2008 and 2009.

Leisure

Our Leisure group is consistently highly ranked with a number of large longstanding clients,operating in the pubs, bars & restaurants, health & fitness, gaming, sport and museum sectors. We regularly act on very high profile matters, such as the Ferrari/Formula 1 litigation in the UK, which have received considerable press coverage.

In 2008, CMS was ranked number one for volume of transactions in the Leisure sector across Europe by Mergermarket. One of these transactions, Nuffield Health’s acquisition of Cannons Health & Fitness was named Leisure Report’s Deal of the Year 2008.

Contact

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