Hotel Financing

Hotel Financing

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Lenders and borrowers for individual hotel/hospitality (hotels, casinos, stadia, theme parks, passenger ports, cruise ships), as well as portfolio/corporate transactions involving such facilities, can rely on the extensive global experience of Dentons’ Finance lawyers.

Our lawyers develop customized approaches, and documents for financial covenants, warranties, reporting, lender security and operator nondisturbs are expertly tailored to ensure that the unique blend of commercial real estate and operating business issues involved in your financing transaction are fully resolved within the relevant hospitality and geographical context.

We are familiar with the policies and procedures of the major lenders and operators for finance facilities and documentation, how they might vary for specific countries/regions, and their interplay with related corporate, capital markets and operator transactions and documents. And we are regularly involved with structured finance and alternative finance solutions being employed in today’s constrained debt markets. As a regular participant in hospitality financings, we are able to speak knowledgeably as to current market standards.

Experience

Deutsche Bank AG: Advising on a US$1.3 billion Russian hotel financing. The first two loans, a US$392 million construction financing and US$792 million refinancing, both related to the development and commissioning of the 5-Star "Four Seasons Moskva Hotel" on Okhotny Ryad (Red Square). The third loan, a RUR 3 billion (US$115 million), financed the acquisition of the Sovetskaya Hotel in Moscow by a Russian property magnate.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts : Advising in connection with €104 million financing from Aareal Bank AG regarding Hotel InterContinetal Praha.

News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego on US$60 million export financing to Molo Group for hotel complex in Turks and Caicos

March 10, 2025

Dentons has advised Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), the Polish development bank, on a long-term investment loan of up to US$60 million granted to the Molo Group, owned by the Slominski family. The financing will be used to build a hotel complex with 251 rooms and suites on Providenciales, the main island of the Turks and Caicos archipelago in the Caribbean. The buildings will be constructed from equipment and modules manufactured in Poland.

Dentons advises AJ Capital Partners in sale of Graduate Hotels brand to Hilton

February 7, 2025

The Dentons hospitality and leisure team is pleased to have advised on one of the “most influential hotel industry deals in 2024” according to Hotel Investment Today, on behalf of our client, AJ Capital Partners.

Dentons advises Rockbridge in the acquisition of three luxury hotel properties

January 10, 2025

A team of Dentons Hospitality lawyers, led by partners Lindsay Jewell and Adam Docks, advised affiliates of Rockbridge Hospitality Fund IX L.P. in the successful completion of the acquisition of three luxury lifestyle hotel properties.