The Firm: This firm represents investors and owners, as well as hotel brands and developers, in a variety of leisure and hospitality matters. The firm regularly represents REITs, private equity groups, sovereign wealth funds and high net worth individuals, in investments and acquisitions within the sector. Additionally, it represents a number of boutique developers and non-US-based hotel brands in developments, acquisitions and management agreement work.

Sources Say: "They take the time to understand the objective of what we want to accomplish, and they try to understand the business objectives of what we need."

Key Individuals: Jeffrey Horwitz is a corporate and securities lawyer with extensive expertise in the leisure and hospitality sector. "He is very practical. He is not only a very talented lawyer: he has got great experience which comes to bear in different situations," say sources.