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"Providing sound counsel and highly responsive
service to leisure and resort-oriented enterprises."
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Leisure & Resorts
Few endeavors pose challenges as diverse as those
presented by the various businesses within the leisure and resorts industry.
Owners, operators, lenders, investors and developers face a wide-range
of issues, with their success depending on expert guidance and counsel.
Representing owners, operators, investors, developers,
lenders and governmental agencies worldwide, The Leisure and Resorts
Group has a long history of providing consulting and legal services to
leisure and resort companies and developers. We understand the business,
and we provide single-source access to an experienced and proven team
of attorneys.
While the Leisure and Resorts Group has been active
throughout the world, our presence in South Florida has enabled us to
gain considerable experience throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
We have strong relationships with local counsel throughout the region.
Our attorneys also have thorough insight on cultural and political factors
that may impact a client's business venture as evidenced through the
following statement made by a former client of the firm:
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"I was Secretary of Economic Development
and Commerce and Executive Director of the Tourism Company in Puerto
Rico during the first four years of the Rossello Administration.
We had an ambitious tourism agenda to accomplish the twin goals
of privatizing the government-owned hotels and dramatically increasing
private sector investment in new tourism product through tax incentives
and government guarantee of debt.
I determined early on that I needed stateside
counsel experienced in the complex public/private partnerships
we would be doing and respected by the international hospitality
development community. I initially engaged Gunster Yoakley to handle
only the hotel privatizations. Their performance was so satisfactory
and their reputation in the hospitality industry so strong, that
I soon expanded their role to include all our new development deals
and other sensitive assignments, such as oil spill response and
drafting of tourism-related legislation.
The results speak for themselves. The Government
is now completely out of the hotel business. Over 5,000 rooms have
been added to Puerto Rico's tourism inventory, representing a total
project cost in excess of one billion dollars. Puerto Rico now
has state of the art timeshare and tourism development district
laws.
Our friends from Gunster Yoakley were with us
every step of the way: advising and counseling us; negotiating
on our behalf; drafting sophisticated documents; helping us find
solutions where others found problems. They were my valuable partners
in success."
Lic. Luis Fortunõ, Secretary of Puerto Rico
Department of Economic Development & Commerce and
Executive Director of Puerto Rico Tourism Company,
January, 1993 to December, 1996
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Members of the Leisure and Resorts Group focus their
efforts on understanding the "big picture". Years of experience
providing proactive counsel to clients in all sectors has produced a
team skilled in navigating through the hardships and complexities of
the leisure and resort industry.
Leisure & Resorts Attorneys
Contact
Paul W.A. Courtnell, Jr.
Service Areas
- Asset Resolution and Litigation
- Golf and Club Memberships
- Governmental Services
- Hospitality: Hotels and Resorts
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Timeshare and Vacation Clubs
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- Marketing
- Financing
- Regulation
- Mixed-use Resort Communities
- Environmental/Land Use
- International
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