Tourism and hospitality law

Our lawyers, experts in tourism and hospitality law, now support and advise many actors in tourist accommodation, culture and catering. Their experience in this field leads them to advise and represent investors, investment funds, SMEs/ SMIs or operators, both in France and abroad.

Today, we advise dozens of professionals in the hotel and restaurant industries.

Drawing on our hotel and restaurant industry expertise, we advise and represent small businesses, medium-sized enterprises and larger operators, both nationally and internationally. These include :

Hotel and apart-hotel owners and operators
Real estate and / or hospitality investment funds
Private and public investors in the hospitality, tourist lodging and restaurant industries

Our lawyers offer support in monitoring hotel or restaurant operations in the following areas :

Drafting and negotiation of commercial leases, lease management contracts, franchise agreements
Assistance in all commercial lease issues: renewal, rent revision, contract execution, eviction
Drafting and negotiation of operational and commercial contracts, general conditions of sale
Preparation of employment contracts, notices of dismissal, representation at industrial tribunals and before the social security contributions collection agency (URSSAF) and tax authorities

The lawyers
in tourism and hospitality law

Christopher Boinet

Partner

Cabinet
In Extenso Avocats Tourism, Culture and Hospitality

Ville
Paris

Paris Bar

Domaine d'expertise
Tourism and hospitality law
Construction and property law
Commercial law...

Anne Epinat

Partner

Cabinet
In Extenso Avocats Tourism, Culture and Hospitality

Ville
Paris

Paris Bar

Domaine d'expertise
Commercial law
Construction and property law
Company law...

Dedicated lawyers helping clients to develop new hotel and restaurant projects

Having conducted a prior feasibility or market study for the most part, our clients seek to involve us in their thought process. If need be, In Extenso Avocats can advise on legal and tax arrangements in the very early stages of a project, working where necessary with the client’s hotel consultants, technical advisors, accountants and solicitors. We offer advice in the following areas :

Assistance with land purchases, building works, building leases, off-plan lease agreements and commercial leases
Analysis of legal feasibility (servitudes, planning regulations to be respected during the building’s construction/renovation and operation)
Tax optimisation with regard to the structure of the acquisition or group.

Avocat droit hôtellerie nouveaux projets

In Extenso Avocats assists clients with hotel and restaurant acquisitions, sales and financing.

Our lawyers offer custom expertise and support at all key stages of a strategy or project’s implementation, both in France and abroad. Our clients appreciate the flexibility and reactivity of our firm, as well as its experience in the following fields:

Domestic or cross border transactions, on invitation to tender or directly between parties
Legal, tax and employment audits
Drafting of sales agreements, liability guarantees, share sale agreements, business sale agreements
Tax optimisation strategies
Drafting and negotiation of all types of loan agreements
Monitoring of guarantee registrations (collateral, mortgages)
Property and equipment leases, lease-back transactions

Providing tailored advice and litigation in France and abroad

Domestic or cross border transactions, on invitation to tender or directly between parties
Legal, tax and employment audits
Drafting of sales agreements, liability guarantees, share sale agreements, business sale agreements
Tax optimisation strategies
Drafting and negotiation of all types of loan agreements
Monitoring of guarantee registrations (collateral, mortgages)
Property and equipment leases, lease-back transactions

We claim to be hands-on lawyers with proven experience in all types of hospitality, restaurant and property litigation. What could be more reassuring for clients, then, than calling on a practised litigator to ensure legal effectiveness in the event a case goes to court?

Our litigation lawyers frequently deal with the following issues:

Commercial leases, lease-management contracts, hotel management contracts
Construction works, renovation, building delivery and snagging and builders’ warranties
Commercial relations with suppliers and service providers, breach of contract
Claims handling (all types), relations with insurance companies, appeals for compensation
Sales litigation
Invoking liability guarantee

And to go further …

Our clients trust us and seek our legal and tax advice. We apply our expertise on a case-by-case basis and can rapidly bring on board our lawyers with regard to:

Choice of company structure
Mergers, demergers, capital contribution and group restructuring
Employment law and social security protection
Intellectual property and new technologies, protection of personal data.

What makes us different

Multidisciplinary, our network of business law firms is interprofessional. We work in close collaboration with all the expertise present within the In Extenso group which allows our clients to benefit from a single, multi-interlocutor, to support them in their creation projects, development, management or transmission, whatever their sector of activity and the size of their company.

As a human-sized local network, our teams provide advice and litigation to all decision-makers, public authorities and individuals throughout France.

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Much more than a network…

In 2023, In Extenso Avocats has 50 employees including 22 associate lawyers and 21 lawyers and lawyers in collaboration who accompany on a daily basis VSEs, SMEs, liberal professions, communities, associations and foundations, executives and individuals in advice and litigation.

Our law firms, multidisciplinary, intervene in social law, tax, business law, real estate, civil law and international law. Some of them have more specific activities in public law, environmental law, insurance law, sports law and hotel-tourism-restaurant law.

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In Extenso Avocats brings together legal advice experts around common values who help companies (VSE, SME, ETI and large groups), associations, foundations, liberal professions, public authorities and more broadly all decision makers, to secure, manage and optimize their activity. Our lawyers also intervene in litigation to ensure the defense of the interests of their clients before the courts and jurisdictions concerned. Consulting subsidiary of the In Extenso group, French leader in accounting for small businesses and SMEs, In Extenso Avocats is a network of interprofessional business law firms combining legal professionals and professionals of the figure for a 360° support of companies and individuals.

Multidisciplinary, In Extenso Avocats helps its clients, all sectors of activity combined in multiple areas of law such as business law, commercial law, tax law, labour law and social protection, real estate and construction law, urban planning and regional planning law, environmental law, public law, intellectual property law including certified expertise in GDPR, family and heritage law and international law. Our lawyers are also recognized as experts in specific sectors of activity such as hospitality, catering, tourism or sports.