Practice & Industry Areas
Leisure & Resorts Group
In an arena where trends quickly shift, Gunster's Leisure & Resorts Group offers clients the advantage of the long-term perspective that comes only from years of hands-on involvement in the hospitality industry. We work as a partner with our clients, from owners and operators, to investors and developers, to lenders and governmental agencies.
Our knowledgeable experience covers the full spectrum of hospitality projects, including hotels, resorts, club membership programs; mixed-use properties, and highly-amenitized master-planned communities. We work with clients' existing management teams in the way most effective for each client. In the role of lead consultant, we serve as liaison among team members, bringing continuity to a project and keeping it on a forward track. We also work with in-house counsel, providing a complement to their efforts and the advantage of an outside perspective.
We represent clients from the initial acquisition and land use phases, through financing and construction, to management, franchising, operations, rental programs and ultimate sale or turnover. We also provide owners and operators with valuable training on employment matters such as equal opportunity, and health and safety issues. We stand ready to address - and when necessary, vigorously litigate-complaints brought by employees, environmental agencies, franchisees, partners or shareholders, and our in-depth knowledge ensures that these disputes can be resolved efficiently and effectively. This same industry insight assures clients of the most valuable alternatives in project workouts and restructuring.
Our cross-disciplinary approach - entity selection, real estate, land use, construction, marketing, finance, compliance, operations, tax, "green" building/LEED certification, environmental, international and immigration issues - results in a level of proactive counseling that can only be provided by a very few select firms nationwide.
Learn more at www.leisureandresorts.com.
Service areas:
- Alcoholic beverage licensing
- Club memberships and amenities
- Construction law
- Development, finance, operations and marketing services
- Environmental/land use
- Governmental services and regulatory compliance
- Green building/LEED certification
- Hotels, resorts and mixed-use properties
- Internal ownership, timeshares and fractionals
- Litigation and asset resolution
- Master-planned communities
- Private residence and destination clubs
- Project restructuring workouts and dispute resolution
- Property owners' associations
- Rental Programs