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We represent companies across the industry, including restaurants, wineries, breweries and distilleries, hotels and resorts, gaming companies, and food and beverage producers. We also represent several industry associations, which puts us front and center in the development of the industry’s business and legislative initiatives. We provide clients with counsel on operations and the full range of core legal services, such as regulatory, franchise, trademark, licensing and distribution, employment, corporate transactions and real estate.
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hospitalityLegal services for the hospitality industry
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is an international full-service law firm representing a diverse range of clients around the world. Our team includes more than 500 attorneys covering a variety of practice areas with strong substantive teams in areas such as real estate, intel-lectual property, franchise and distribution, business transactions, employment, banking, environmen-tal, tax, corporate finance, M&A, advertising, and litigation. The firm was founded in Seattle in 1908 on a simple guiding principle—to provide clients with quality legal services in a manner that would exceed their expectations. DWT was the first American law firm in China, opening a Shanghai office in 1993. We are ranked among the AmLaw 200.
« Client, Gruner Restaurant. Portland, Oregon.
Today, more than 60 attorneys comprise our hospitality group,
assisting clients in all 50 states and internationally, in more
than 15 specialized substantive areas that impact hotel,
restaurant, and food and beverage brands. As a result of our
deep knowledge of the industry, we can respond quickly, work
efficiently, and anticipate and help our clients mitigate and
manage risk. We also quickly grasp the nuances of particular
situations and provide insightful counsel tailored to a client’s
particular competitive situation and business goals.
In addition to the legal support and business insight we
provide, we have strong relationships with the brokerage and
finance communities and strive to connect clients with great
opportunities and needed capital.
Hospitality Practice Group
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Client, St. Jack Restaurant. Portland, Oregon.
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Client, Pacific Hotel Management — Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts, the
Clement Monterey. Monterey, California.
representative clients
APIC/Haiyi Hotels
Alaska Permanent Fund
Beijing Tourism Corporation
Coast Hotels
Escape Lodging
Hyatt Hotels
Millennium Hotels and Resorts
Pacific Hotel Management LLC
Paramount Hotels
Red Lion Hotels
We represent a wide range of hotel and resort owners from start to finish with development projects, financial restructuring, acquisitions, construction financing, ground leasings, entitlements, and environmen-tal reviews. We aid in construction, labor, license and management agreements. We work with global brands and owners to protect their intellectual property, expand their reach, manage their workforce, and address daily operational issues. We also assist large corporate and institutional clients with portfolio acquisitions, timely divestitures, and financing arrangements.
We have represented hotel clients in billions of dollars of real estate transactions, financed by groups such as Goldman Sachs, Chase Manhattan, Morgan Stanley, GMAC, GECC, HSBC, AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, EuroHypo, and many others. We have created joint ventures that combine developer expertise with investors in search of high returns. We are leaders in the representation of cross-border investments, and are experienced in tax treaties and the corporate structures that best service the international investor. We have formed a China Outbound Direct Investment group to assist Chinese hotel investors from our Shanghai and domestic offices, recently completing the acquisition of five boutique San Francisco hotels for client APIC/Haiyi.
For more information, contact:
Hotels & Resorts
Stephen R. Ledoux | PARTNER Hotel Real Estate and Development
[email protected] | 415.276.6519 (SAN FRANCISCO)
Bruce Bjerke | PARTNER Hotel M&A
[email protected] | 206.757.8071 (SEATTLE)
Matt Le Master | PARTNER Hotel M&A
[email protected] | 206.757.8077 (SEATTLE)
Karen Thiessen | ASSOCIATE Hotel Real Estate and Development
[email protected] | 503.778.5286 (PORTLAND)
Our nationally recognized restaurant team represents companies across the industry, including corporate and franchised restaurant chains, large franchisee groups, celebrity chefs and high-end restaurateurs. We represent several of the leading U.S. publicly-traded restaurant chains in their expansion efforts, both domestically and internationally.
We serve restaurants in all relevent substantive areas, including general business and M&A, corporate finance, real estate, franchising, licensing, non-traditional development, media and advertising, and food safety and risk management.
Representative clients:
• Starbucks
• California Pizza Kitchen
• Lemonade Restaurant Group
• McCormick & Schmick's
• Mendocino Farms
• The Old Spaghetti Factory
• Veggie Grill
• Apple American Group LLC
• Roundtable Pizza
• Blue Ribbon Restaurant Group
For more information, contact:
Restaurants
Riley Lagesen | RESTAURANT INDUSTRY CHAIR Strategic Growth & Development Advisor
[email protected] | 503.778.5217 (PORTLAND)
« Strategic growth counsel to Matador Restaurant. Expanded from Seattle to six more locations since it opened in 2004.
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We counsel from vineyard to table.
We support food and beverage clients on daily operations, market channel decisions, transactions with suppliers and customers, marketing and manufacturing agreements, trademarks and other intellectual property, trade secrets, finance, franchising and distribution, and tax, including disputes with the USDA, FDA, and the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. We work with clients to ensure compliance with licensing, permitting, labeling, record-keeping, interna-tional trade issues, and food and beverage safety and product recalls.
Our food and beverage clients include producers and distributors, packaged food companies, restaurants, franchisors, licensors, retailers, wineries, breweries and distilleries, importers, and wholesalers. We also represent key industry associations, which helps keep us on top of emerging legislative and business issues.
Representative clients:
• Darigold
• Tyson Foods
• Mike's Hard Lemonade
• Mendocino Farms
• Red Bull
• Seattle Gourmet Foods
• Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
• Starbucks
• American Seafoods
• National Frozen Foods
• Maletis Beverage
• Willamette Valley Vineyards
• Westward Seafoods
For more information, contact:
Food & Beverage
Jesse Lyon | FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY CHAIR Strategic Transactions/Food Regulatory Matters/Product Supply and Distribution
[email protected] | 503.778.5268 (PORTLAND)
Our hospitality services include:
Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate Finance
Securities & 1934 Act Reporting
Leasing & Real Estate
Employment
Alcohol Licensing & Regulation
Franchise, Distribution & Supply Chain
Non-Traditional Venue Restaurant Development
Licensing, Management Agreements & Joint Ventures
Social Media & Technology
Gift Cards & Sweepstakes
Intellectual Property
Food Safety / USDA Regulatory
General Corporate
Tax
Immigration
Litigation
Energy
Commercial Finance
Bankruptcy
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