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 CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz' 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 hotel, leisure and sport operations, 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 industry and its issues: Wherever you do business in Europe.

You can get advice from our specialist hotel lawyers on every aspect of your transactions or operations, including:

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

Wherever you do business in the hotel and/or leisure sectors: CMS will be there for you. Our specialists in all of our offices across Europe can advise you on all matters, including Banking & Finance, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment & Pensions, Environment, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Private Equity, Public Procurement, Real Estate & Construction and Tax.

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. Our specialist teams from across Europe 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.

* in cooperation with Bulgarian lawyers