Contributors
Join our expert panel from Savills, JF Capital Advisers, and Womble Bond Dickinson (UK and US), demystifying branded residences, exploring what they are, why brands are entering the space and how successful models operate in mature markets. We’ll also examine what the UK can learn from international experience and what this means for developers and brands considering opportunities.
Georgina Hook
Head of Hospitality and Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
Georgina has extensive experience across all real estate matters and has been recommended in Chambers and Partners as "One to Watch". She acts for substantial clients on the acquisition, development, asset management and disposal of their real estate assets. Georgina is extremely proactive and client focussed.
Tara Gorman
Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Tara focuses her practice on hospitality law, advising clients domestically and internationally on a broad spectrum of matters, including hotel acquisitions, licensing, branding, financings, operation, and development. She has extensive experience in management, licensing, and branding agreements for hotels, restaurants, water parks, and casinos. A trusted advisor, Tara is known for her practical, business-focused counsel, her creative solutions, and her ability to see beyond legal and business issues to create consensus quickly.
Louis Keighley
Head of Global Residential Development Consultancy, Development Consultancy (International), Savills UK
Louis (and his team) are considered the market-leading consultants on Branded Residences. The team provide strategic development consultancy for international residential and mixed-use developments from small-scale bespoke luxury projects to large, mixed-use regeneration schemes.
Louis provides investors and developers with a range of professional services focusing particularly on maximising returns and minimising development risk of branded residential developments located in both resort and urban destinations globally.
Louis’ team is based in Savills HQ in London (with a satellite operation out of Dubai). The team have a global remit and provide their client’s with a seamless end-to-end service from project conception to successful commercialisation.
Jonathan Falik
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, JF Capital Advisors
Jonathan Falik is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of JF Capital Advisors where he leads the firm’s hospitality business, which includes restructuring and repositioning, equity and debt placement, asset acquisitions and dispositions, portfolio transactions, JV structuring, asset management, management company and brand evaluation, and strategic and capital markets advisory services. Jonathan was a Senior Managing Director and the Head of Hospitality Capital Markets at BGC Real Estate Capital Markets, the Head of Hotel Investment Sales for Newmark Grubb Knight Frank and the Head of the Lodging and Leisure Investment Banking group at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. Jonathan has completed over $40 billion of hospitality transactions including over $1 billion as a principal.
Cost
: Free
