International law firm Dechert LLP advised Hyatt International (Europe Africa Middle East) LLC, an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, on management agreements entered into with OJSC Nash Dom-Primorye for two new Hyatt hotels in Russia: Hyatt Regency Vladivostok, Golden Horn and Hyatt Vladivostok, Burny, which will be the third and fourth Hyatt-branded hotels in Russia. The hotels are under construction and expected to open in advance of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in the fall 2012.
The Dechert team representing Hyatt consists of Dechert’s Moscow Managing Partner Laura M. Brank and Moscow associates Alexander Volnov, Evgenia Gaysinskaya and Elena Ivankina. The team also recently acted for Hyatt in connection with the conclusion of a management agreement for the Hyatt Regency Sochi which is slated to open in 2013 – in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Brank also acted for Hyatt in connection with the opening of hotels in Moscow and Ekaterinburg.
Dechert’s Moscow office encompasses a highly regarded team of Russian-, U.S.-, English- and dual-qualified lawyers who work closely with Dechert’s lawyers in Europe, the United States, and Asia on cross-border and international matters. In Russia, Dechert’s “just outstanding” (The Legal 500 EMEA, 2011) real estate lawyers advise on a broad range of real estate matters and have conducted due diligence on hundreds of real estate assets in the course of M&A transactions. Our transactional experience is supported and complemented by a “select” dispute resolution team (Chambers Global, 2011) with extensive experience in real estate-related and investment disputes, including ongoing representation of a number of Russian businessmen and their companies in several multibillion dollar arbitrations and court proceedings in various jurisdictions arising out of a major construction project in the CIS. Dechert was ranked by mergermarket as one of the leading legal advisors by deal value in Russia and CEE in 2010.
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