Irv has served the hospitality industry for over twenty years. He has counseled hotel clients, as lead counsel, in thousands of hotel matters and transactions regionally, nationally and internationally, including hotel developments, acquisitions and dispositions, financial and entity structuring, management agreements, franchising and operational matters, strategic claims resolution, and bankruptcies. Irv is the 2008 recipient of the national Anthony G. Marshall Award, given annually by the Board of the Hospitality Law Conference in Houston for pioneering and lasting contributions to the field of hospitality law.  »Full Profile

Russ works with hotel and restaurant clients on strategic planning, transactions, franchising and operational matters, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, management agreements, franchise, beverage licensing, intellectual property, sales, marketing, construction and procurement. Russ’s prior experience in the hospitality industry includes positions at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.(Vice President, Associate General Counsel), and at The Ground Round, Inc.(Director of Legal Affairs, Corporate Secretary and Acting General Counsel).
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