CMS is Europe’s leading law firm for the hotel & leisure 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 & leisure group that has an unrivalled profile in the hotel & leisure industry and has acted on a large number of major groundbreaking transactions.
Our track record of advising on a wide range of hotel, 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
Our Leisure group is consistently highly ranked with a number of large longstanding clients, such as Enterprise Inns, 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/MacLaren Formula 1 dispute, which have received considerable press coverage.
Wherever you do business in the hotel and/or leisure sectors in Europe, our cross border team, with specialists in all of our offices throughout the UK and Central & Eastern Europe, can advise you on all matters, including Banking & Finance, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment & Pensions, Environment [link to the Green page], Immigration, Intellectual Property, Outsourcing, Private Equity, Public Procurement, Real Estate & Construction and Tax.