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Hospitality and leisure

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The practice at Baker McKenzie has a workload that incorporates the range of finance and transactional matters of substantial value. Justin Salkeld oversees the cohort and has a specialism in real estate cases. Sebastien Marcelin-Rice advises both sponsors and lenders in high-value real estate finance transactions in cross-jurisdictional European financing and refinancing matters. Ben Farnell is noteworthy for his planning and development capabilities, as well as his work in sustainability-related real estate matters.
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  • 'The team has been our regular law firm for decades.'

Key clients

  • Britannia Hospitality
  • Davidson Kempner European Partners LLP
  • Edwardian Group
  • Fattal Hotels Group
  • Marriott Inc.
  • Roundshield
  • Blue Water Capital
  • King Street

Work highlights

Advised Edwardian Hotels in the sale of a one-of-a-kind portfolio of Central London freehold hotels to the American private-equity firm Starwood Capital Group in an off-market transaction.
Advised Blue Water Capital (London) Limited in its role as arranger on all aspects of the financing of Tower Suites by Blue Orchid Hotels - a premium real estate hotel asset in a prime central location (Tower Bridge, London).
Advised a client on a first-of-its-kind branded residence redevelopment financing.

Lawyers

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Practice head

Justin Salkeld

Other key lawyers

Sebastien Marcelin-Rice; Ben Farnell

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