Capital Advisory Services
HTL Hospitality Advisors provides a complete compliment of hotel industry capital advisory services including:
- Acquisitions
- Mortgage brokerage
- Equity capital formation
- Note sales
- Distressed loan workout services
Our capital markets team is well experienced in evaluating, structuring and solving the financing needs for hotel, tourism and leisure projects, portfolios, and companies. We help identify and secure favorable long-term debt financing as well as equity partners from traditional as well as alternative capital sources. Horwath HTL, our affiliated company with worldwide offices in 57 cities, also provides us access to global capital market players that may not be visible in the domestic market.
Each client and each project is unique and our approach to the capital markets is made with the client's goals and objectives in mind. Our client's assignments include new developments, existing hotels, tourism, and leisure projects, as well as, companies in distress or operating with sub-optimal financial structures. We package the opportunity with an eye to addressing lender and investor concerns, carefully evaluating opportunities, and working them through to a successful funding.
Debt Financing
HTL Hospitality Advisors has a long track record in the placement of construction, permanent, and mezzanine financing with lending institutions as well as private capital companies. As the lending markets shift, we are constantly updating our lending contacts and staying abreast of their current underwriting criteria. Staying knowledgeable about the marketplace allows us to target the right lender for each assignment and enhances the potential for success in placing loans for our clients.
Equity Procurement
Our associate network of offices around the world enables us to source equity capital from sources of which our competitors are unaware. This ability to access both domestic as well as international equity sources has allowed us to formulate creative joint venture structures for our clients in the form of:
- Mezzanine equity
- Joint venture capital
- Corporate equity or lines of credit
Investment Banking
Investment banking services include a variety of ways in assisting our clients achieve their capital structuring needs.
A few of the ways we have helped our clients include:
- Advising on corporate level merger and acquisition matters
- Developing strategic plans for companies and their real estate portfolios
- Directly handling the workout of troubled real estate assets as receivers or asset managers
We maintain a close working relationship with the certified public accounting network of Crowe Horwath International with offices in over 550 cities worldwide. This working alliance allows us to fully service the needs of our clients in all merger and acquisition activities either domestic or international including; valuations, accounting, tax, asset allocation, and capital structuring.
Professional Memberships
Our professional staff members are active members of the industry's largest trade organizations such as the:
- Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA)
- International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC)
- American Hotel & Lodging Association
Senior staff are also frequent guest speakers at large hospitality industry conferences or trade shows on the subject of debt, equity and distressed loans.
Of this, we are certain:
- Our team has the expertise to successfully complete any hospitality related asset disposition assignment.
- Our professional staff members are well trained in sales, analysis and contractual documentation.
- Our Firm has the depth of talent and professionalism necessary to successfully assist its clients with all of their hotel real estate activities.
