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As an owner, investor, lender or operator in the hotels and leisure sector, you encounter complex business issues that require expert solutions. Your challenges may include corporate, tax, financing, construction, environmental, litigation and employment matters, often across borders. CMS Brazil connects you to hotels and leisure sector specialists in 34 countries.

CMS lawyers lead strategically in the sector, having completed more deals than any other law firm and being top ranked by all legal directories. We can advise you on M&A, financing, development & construction, leases, management and franchise agreements and tax structuring. In addition to our core client base of investors and lenders, we also advise operators, brand owners, administrators, construction companies and technology providers.

In addition to our core client base of investors, funds and lenders, we also advise operators, brand owners, administrators, construction companies and technology providers. We can give you access to the latest information, ideas and opportunities. We can introduce you to other sector players, including operators, purchasers, vendors, construction firms, financiers and investors. Such contacts can prove invaluable to your business. If you are involved in a distressed situation, our real estate restructuring lawyers can help sell your hotel or leisure asset out of insolvency. In the event of a dispute, our industry experts can guide you through the litigation process, ensuring you the best outcome.

High­lights of our ex­per­i­ence in Ho­tels & Leis­ure in Brazil
A lead­ing in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tels group on man­aging a port­fo­lio of lit­ig­a­tion arising out the clos­ure of ho­tels in Brazil, as well as re­lated ar­bit­ra­tion pro­ceed­ings. CTS Even­tim (A lead­er in in­ter­na­tion­al...
02/07/2018
Find­ing the bal­ance: hu­man touch versus high tech
Ho­tels and res­taur­ants are in­creas­ingly ex­pec­ted to de­liv­er a new and dif­fer­ent ex­per­i­ence; one that leaves a last­ing memory, dis­tin­guishes them from their com­pet­it­ors and em­braces not just tech­no­logy...

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28/02/2023
New EU sanc­tions against Rus­sia
On 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023, one year after Rus­sia star­ted its in­va­sion of Ukraine, the EU ad­op­ted its tenth sanc­tions pack­age against Rus­sia. To­geth­er with the ex­ist­ing sanc­tions the European Com­mis­sion con­siders...
03/02/2023
On your radar | Is­sue 20 | Key em­ploy­ment is­sues to be aware of in­ter­na­tion­ally
Wel­come to the first edi­tion of On your radar for 2023, which high­lights ex­pec­ted em­ploy­ment law de­vel­op­ments over the year ahead.Changes range from big pic­ture con­cepts around fu­ture ways of work­ing...
15/09/2022
CMS An­nu­al Re­view of Eng­lish Con­struc­tion Law De­vel­op­ments: An In­ter­na­tion­al...
We are pleased to an­nounce the pub­lic­a­tion of the 2022 edi­tion of our in­ter­na­tion­ally fo­cused An­nu­al Re­view of Eng­lish Con­struc­tion Law De­vel­op­ments. Now in its twelfth year, the An­nu­al Re­view sum­mar­ises...
14/09/2022
Avoid an ad­vert­ising red card: Middle East­ern con­sid­er­a­tions for your Qatar...
As the 2022 Foot­ball World Cup in Qatar draws near­er, all eyes are on the Middle East, with this be­ing the first time that the tour­na­ment has been hos­ted in the re­gion. Brands around the world will un­doubtedly...
08/09/2022
Man­aging Sup­ply Chain Risk - An up­date on leg­al and stra­tegic re­quire­ments...
In June 2021, BCG and CMS pub­lished a White Pa­per en­titled “Man­aging Sup­ply Chain Risk – A leg­al and stra­tegic per­spect­ive”. In view of the rising num­ber of laws ob­lig­at­ing com­pan­ies to pre­vent...
21/07/2022
CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest - 2022 Sum­mer Edi­tion
The sum­mer edi­tion of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest, a bi-an­nu­al pub­lic­a­tion that high­lights, ex­plores and ana­lyses the latest trends in the glob­al dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion sec­tor, is now pub­lished...
13/04/2022
Put­ting the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’ - Lex­icon of most im­port­ant terms and phrases...
Com­pan­ies across all sec­tors and mar­kets are in­creas­ingly be­ing eval­u­ated on their en­vir­on­ment­al, so­cial and gov­ernance (ESG) ac­tions. ESG factors are now be­ing used to de­term­ine the level of risk a com­pany...
27/02/2022
Hand­ling the new EU and UK sanc­tions against Rus­sia
Since 2014, the EU and the UK have pro­gress­ively im­posed sanc­tions on Rus­sia in re­sponse to the crisis in Ukraine. Fol­low­ing the latest events, both the EU and the UK, as well as many oth­er coun­tries...
12/01/2022
CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest - 2021/22 Winter Edi­tion
Wel­come to the winter edi­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest, a bi­an­nu­al pub­lic­a­tion that ex­plores, ana­lyses and provides com­ment­ary on the latest trends in the world­wide dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion mar­ket...
04/11/2021
Up­date: CMS Ex­pert Guide to In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion – Amer­icas
We are pleased to an­nounce that the fifth volume of the CMS Ex­pert Guide to In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion has been pub­lished, cov­er­ing sev­en jur­is­dic­tions in the Amer­icas: Ar­gen­tina, Brazil, Columbia, Chile...
02/07/2018
Find­ing the bal­ance: hu­man touch versus high tech
Today, we launch our new re­port for the hotel and res­taur­ant sec­tor. Ho­tels and res­taur­ants are in­creas­ingly ex­pec­ted to de­liv­er a new and dif­fer­ent ex­per­i­ence; one that leaves a last­ing memory, dis­tin­guishes...
13/02/2018
The rise of the new lux­ury eco­nomy
Travel has al­ways played host to dra­mat­ic and of­ten dis­rupt­ive changes. At CMS’s an­nu­al tech­no­logy con­fer­ence, In­nov­ate to Sur­vive, onefinestay’s CEO, Javi­er Ce­dillo-Es­pin de­livered a key­note, sum­mar­ised...