The Hospitality Law Conference
This immersive one-and-a-half-day conference delivers intimate, impactful, and expert-led educational experiences tailored for the lodging and food & beverage industries. Attendees participate in interactive discussions and sessions that explore best practices and benchmark current policies.
Day 1 features Let’s Make a Deal, a dynamic half-day program bringing together key stakeholders from across the hospitality deal-making ecosystem. This program dives deep into the legal, financial, and strategic components that drive successful hotel projects, acquisitions, refinancings, and other transactions.
Designed for lawyers, lenders, investors, brokers, and finance executives, Let’s Make a Deal serves as a master class on current market trends, deal structures, portfolio strategies, exit options, risk management, and financing tools shaping today’s hospitality landscape.
Whether you’re closing your first hospitality deal, refinancing an existing asset, or refining your next acquisition strategy, Let’s Make a Deal delivers the insights and connections needed to move projects forward with confidence.
Day 2 focuses on the complex operational challenges facing hospitality businesses today. Topics include labor and employment, food and beverage operations, safety and security, risk mitigation, management agreements, and emerging litigation trends.
Designed for owners, operators, HR professionals, security leaders, in-house counsel, and other hospitality practitioners, this full-day program offers practical insights and actionable strategies to help navigate the legal and operational issues that impact daily decision-making.
Attendees will gain up-to-date guidance, real-world examples, and best practices to strengthen compliance, enhance guest and employee safety, and protect their organizations from evolving risks.
Continuing Legal Education Credit:
HospitalityLawyer.com has partnered with MyLawCLE for this program.
MyLawCLE applies for CLE accreditation for all programs in every state, with the exception of live credits in Virginia. In Virginia, only self-study credits are sought.
After the CLE program concludes, all participating attorneys and paralegals will receive a certificate of completion as proof of attendance. In states that require attendance tracking, myLawCLE records attendance directly. In all other states, participants are responsible for submitting the approved CLE certificate to their state bar or governing body.
On-Demand Post-Conference Access
This program will be available to stream live on the day of the event and will also be offered On-Demand within a few days afterward.
Join the LiveStream Waitlist by emailing Marilyn Faz at marilyn@hospitalitylawyer.com.
Check-In
Welcome
Marketing Setting Overview
A high-level look at the hospitality investment climate, transaction activity, financing conditions, and development outlook heading into 2027.
Panel 1: Where the Deals Are Happening
An overview of current transaction activity, investor appetite, and the sectors driving hospitality deal flow, including conversions, adaptive reuse, branded residences, and distressed opportunities.
Panel 2: Structuring the Hospitality Acquisition
Key considerations in hotel acquisitions from LOI through diligence and closing, including negotiation strategy, deal terms, risk allocation, and operational transition planning.
Networking Break
Panel 3: Capital Stacks, Lending & Creative Financing
How hospitality projects are being financed today, lender expectations, recapitalization strategies, and emerging financing structures in a higher-cost capital environment.
Panel 4: Legal Landmines in Hospitality Transactions
Common deal risks that can derail transactions, including diligence failures, management disputes, franchise issues, labor liabilities, and regulatory exposure.
Networking Break
Panel 5: Portfolio Growth & Asset Optimization
Strategies for managing and optimizing multi-property portfolios, including repositioning, branding decisions, dispositions, operational alignment, and value enhancement.
Panel 6: Development, Conversions & Adaptive Reuse
Where development opportunities are emerging and how owners are approaching conversions, mixed-use projects, adaptive reuse, and redevelopment opportunities.
Networking Break
Capstone Case Study
Closing Remarks
Dealmakers Reception
Check-In, Continental Breakfast, Networking
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Session 1
Session 2
Break
Session 3
Session 4
Break
Session 5
Award Luncheon
Presenting the 2026 Thomas G. Davis Loss Prevention Lifetime Achievement Award
