The industry that is so often associated with aesthetics, comfort and even wanderlust — hospitality — requires skilled, innovative and comprehensive legal services.

Hospitality business owners, developers, lenders, franchisers, franchisees and others go to PoGo for seasoned experience and sensible advice. We excel at hospitality industry contract negotiations, franchise and management contracts, hotel development and financing, restaurant leases, restaurant management agreements, workouts and restructuring, and labor and employment issues.

We advise lenders and insurers regarding major hotel and restaurant projects. We serve as developer's counsel for acquisition, financing, rehabilitative construction, and equity and debt financing.

Representative Matters:

• Counsel to privately held hotel company in a merger with a public company, resulting in a hotel operating company with over 140 hotels around the world
• Counsel to public hotel operating company selling more than 20 hotels with a market value in excess of $300,000,000
• Counsel to privately held hotel company in connection with closing over $300,000,000 in securitizable credit facilities to finance the acquisition, construction and renovation of hotels throughout the United States
• Lender's counsel for a $100 million term financing of three Embassy Suites Hotel projects in Florida and Texas
• Foreign bank counsel in connection with a term loan to refinance a golf and country club residential community on Florida's Treasure Coast
• Bank and bond counsel for a letter of credit substitution in connection with tax-exempt refinancing of Georgia and Colorado hotels
• Counsel to large national insurance company for the sale of hotels and motels throughout the United States
• Lender's counsel in refinancing 30 restaurant properties located throughout the Eastern U.S.
• Developer's counsel of extended stay all-suites hotels in Northern Virginia
• Developer's counsel for negotiation of a master development agreement with a national hotel franchise company
• Special counsel for development and tax-exempt financing of hotel and convention center facilities in Georgia and Tennessee
• Developer's counsel for the acquisition and financing of Midtown Atlanta's Georgian Terrace and its conversion to a luxury all-suites hotel
• Georgia counsel to Four Seasons, handling the management and subordinate financing of the Four Seasons Atlanta Hotel
• Developer's counsel for the acquisition, rehabilitative construction and equity and debt financing of a full-service luxury hotel in downtown Atlanta