Hotels & Resorts Mergers & Acquisitions

Handle leads Hotels & Resorts Mergers & Acquisitions across the UAE and key global hospitality corridors, integrating law, capital, and asset strategy into one execution mandate. We control franchise and management agreements, brand covenants, land and strata structures, and operator relationships in a single framework that boards can underwrite.

From single-asset resort disposals to multi-jurisdiction hotel platform acquisitions, we structure deals for enforceability, performance security, and capital certainty. Sponsor, lender, and operator interests align under one statement of work, one critical path, and one accountable partner.

Hotels and resorts sit at the intersection of real estate, brand, and operating risk. Hospitality M&A demands precise control of contracts, capital, land rights, and operator behaviour across jurisdictions.

Handle structures and executes hotel and resort transactions for institutional buyers, sovereign-linked capital, families, and operators, locking in enforceable rights around performance, distributions, and exit. The outcome is simple: assets and platforms acquired or exited on terms that withstand pressure.

• Deep UAE hospitality, land, strata, and free zone execution capability
• Structured integration of HMAs, franchises, leases, and technical service agreements
• Capital stack architecture tied to real cash flow and security packages
• Cross-border SPV, fund, and holding structures for tax and regulatory alignment
• Dispute, default, and termination mechanics engineered into the deal
• Execution discipline from heads of terms to closing and post-closing enforcement

We lead the full M&A lifecycle for hotels and resorts, integrating legal drafting, commercial negotiation, capital structuring, and regulatory execution into a single controlled process.

Our mandate converts complex hospitality contracts and capital structures into bankable, enforceable positions for acquirers, sellers, and capital providers operating in or through the UAE.

• Deal strategy, asset screening, and counterparty mapping for hotel and resort targets
• Transaction structuring: SPVs, fund vehicles, joint ventures, and cross-border holding companies
• Full documentation suite: SPAs, shareholders’ agreements, HMAs, franchises, technical service agreements, and leases
• Capital stack engineering: senior debt, mezzanine, preferred equity, and security packages
• Regulatory and land interface: tourism, municipal, free zone, and sector authorities where required
• Closing and post-closing enforcement: conditions precedent, earn-outs, warranties, indemnities, and dispute pathways