Program Details
2026-03-11 13:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-03-11 13:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ESTThis session examines how managed, franchised, soft-brand, collection, and independent hotel models each shift control, default risk, valuation stability, and exit flexibility, and introduces a practical franchise risk map previewing how comfort letters address these risks before distress begins.
Nelson F. Migdal
Jeffrey T. Myers 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm ESTThis session delivers a deal-driven roadmap for negotiating comfort letters and loan provisions that preserve the franchise flag, protect lender enforcement rights, and maintain resale value when termination rights, PIPs, and transfer approvals threaten collateral in distress scenarios.
Nelson F. MigdalJeffrey T. MyersNelson F. Migdal is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Hospitality Practice, concentrating on hotel acquisitions and dispositions, hotel operations and management, franchising, licensing and branding, and hotel-related development and finance. He regularly prepares and negotiates key deal documents for hotels and resorts, including management and franchise agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and financing and leasing-related instruments tied to hotel and other real estate transactions. His practice experience is reflected in a wide range of representative matters involving major hotel and resort acquisitions, developments, and brand-related transactions.
Jeffrey T. Myers is a partner in Blank Rome’s Los Angeles office whose practice focuses on hospitality transactions involving hotels, resorts, restaurants, and mixed-use hospitality assets worldwide, advising owners, developers, investors, and operators across the full lifecycle of hospitality projects. He regularly works on acquisitions and dispositions, development and joint ventures, EB-5 and traditional financing, and operation and branding agreements, with a particular focus on negotiating management agreements for luxury and lifestyle hotels and destination resorts, along with related franchise, branding, and licensing arrangements.
Nelson F. Migdal is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Hospitality Practice, concentrating on hotel acquisitions and dispositions, hotel operations and management, franchising, licensing and branding, and hotel-related development and finance. He regularly prepares and negotiates key deal documents for hotels and resorts, including management and franchise agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and financing and leasing-related instruments tied to hotel and other real estate transactions. His practice experience is reflected in a wide range of representative matters involving major hotel and resort acquisitions, developments, and brand-related transactions.
Jeffrey T. Myers is a partner in Blank Rome’s Los Angeles office whose practice focuses on hospitality transactions involving hotels, resorts, restaurants, and mixed-use hospitality assets worldwide, advising owners, developers, investors, and operators across the full lifecycle of hospitality projects. He regularly works on acquisitions and dispositions, development and joint ventures, EB-5 and traditional financing, and operation and branding agreements, with a particular focus on negotiating management agreements for luxury and lifestyle hotels and destination resorts, along with related franchise, branding, and licensing arrangements.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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