Hospitality & Mixed-Use
Sector-specialist counsel on the region's most ambitious hospitality and mixed-use schemes.
Hospitality and mixed-use, from concept to operator.
Hospitality and mixed-use projects sit at the intersection of real estate, operator arrangements, financing, and hospitality regulation. We advise sponsors, operators, and lenders through the full lifecycle.
Our lawyers understand HMAs, brand licences, condo-hotel structures, and the layered operational realities of running mixed-use assets.
- Hotel management & franchise agreements
- Condo-hotel & branded residences
- Mixed-use scheme structuring
- Hospitality financing
How we approach this practice.
Our real estate and construction practice supports hospitality and mixed-use schemes from site assembly through EPC contracting, operator agreements, and secured lending.
We draft and review construction and operation and maintenance agreements with balanced risk allocation on delays, performance guarantees, and liability caps.
A dedicated hospitality practice.
Hotel management agreements, franchise, and technical services agreements — owner and operator side.
Condominium, service charge, and multi-use governance frameworks for complex schemes.
Branded residence structures, licence arrangements, and unit sale programmes.
Development and stabilised financing for hospitality assets with operator flow-through.
F&B, spa, and third-party operator arrangements for integrated hospitality assets.
Hospitality licensing, tourism regulator engagement, and liquor licensing.
A disciplined path from concept to close.
- 01Commercial Alignment
We start with the commercial map — economics, control, contributions, and outcome — before drafting a single clause.
- 02Structural Blueprint
A structuring memo sets out the vehicle, jurisdiction, tax treatment, and regulatory path, benchmarked against comparable matters.
- 03Documentation
Bespoke documentation drafted as an integrated instrument set — designed to survive later scrutiny.
- 04Approvals & Closing
Regulator engagement, condition-precedent management, and a disciplined closing choreography.
- 05Stewardship
Ongoing counsel through the life of the matter — governance, calendaring, and dispute-prevention.
Selected hospitality mandates.
A partial view of the mandates we have advised on — sanitised for confidentiality, but indicative of the scale and complexity of our work.
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Advised the owner on an HMA with an international luxury brand for a landmark Nairobi hotel.
- 02
Counsel to a developer on the structuring of a branded residences component of a mixed-use scheme.
- 03
Represented a lender on the financing of a stabilised hospitality asset with operator flow-through.
- 04
Acted for a hotel group on the acquisition and repositioning of a regional hospitality portfolio.
Partners leading the practice.
Where this work connects.
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