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 covers operational challenges, including labor and employment, food and beverage management, safety and security, risk mitigation, management agreements, and litigation trends.
Day 2 features “Let’s Make a Deal”, a dynamic half-day program bringing together key stakeholders from across the hospitality deal-making ecosystem. This event dives deep into the legal, financial, and strategic components that drive successful hotel projects, acquisitions, and other transactions. Designed for lawyers, lenders, investors, brokers, and finance executives, this program is a master class on the latest market trends, deal structures, risk management strategies, and financing tools shaping today’s hospitality landscape.
Whether you’re closing your first hospitality deal, refinancing, or refining your next acquisition, “Let’s Make a Deal” provides the insights and connections to move your projects forward with confidence!
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.
Check-In + Networking Breakfast
Welcome
Marketing Setting Overview
A market-setting overview of where hospitality transactions, capital, and portfolios are headed in 2026.
Panel 1: Market Outlook & Deal-Making Trends
Where are the deals happening now? What’s driving investor interest—conversions, distressed assets, or new development?
Panel 2: Anatomy of a Hospitality Acquisition
A step-by-step walkthrough of hotel acquisitions—from LOI and diligence through closing.
Networking Break
Panel 3: Portfolio Management, Growth & Optimization
Managing risk, performance, and value across multi-property hotel portfolios. Topics include acquisitions vs. dispositions, brand strategy, operational alignment, financing considerations, restructurings, and legal exposure at scale.
Panel 4: Financing Structures, Legal Landmines & Deal Risk
Capital stacks, lender expectations, creative structuring, and the legal pitfalls that can derail transactions—and how to avoid them.
Closing Remarks
Dealmakers Reception
Check-In, Continental Breakfast, Networking
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Session 1
Trade Secrets and Restrictive Convenants: Practical Advice to Safeguard Your Company's Critical Assets
Break
Top Employment Issues in the Hotel and Hospitality Sector
Legal & Operational Issues Associated with Hemp-Based Beverages
Break
Negotiating Purchase and Sale Agreements in the Hospitality Industry
Sesssion 6
Award Luncheon
Presenting the 2026 Anthony G Marshall Hospitality Law Award
Session 7
Session 8
Break
Session 9
Top Hospitality Cases
Closing Remarks
Reception
Thank You to Our Supporters
Thank You to Our Media Alliance
