The Future of Hospitality & Lodging Amidst COVID-19
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ABOUT THE VIRTUAL EVENT
iGlobal Forum was pleased to present the virtual event for The Future of Hospitality & Lodging Amidst Covid-19. You can now watch this virtual event recording on-demand.
Due to the circumstances that have stopped us from meeting face to face, iGlobal Live brings you an exclusive virtual event to discuss the various trends driving the hospitality and lodging industry.
Once again we will bring together the most active participants in the hospitality and lodging space, including institutional and private investors, REITs, investment companies, owners and operators, developers, lenders, brokers, franchisors and franchisees.
Key topics include:
- Pandemic – the Early Days or “Triage Strategies”
- Re-Opening and/or Re-launching hotels.
- Negotiating with Lenders or “Buying Time”.
- What if I want to sell: What's the market?
- How are they pricing and what issues should I expect to have to deal with that are unique to this environment?
- What does this mean for development?
- Pandemic – The Recovery Days
- What are the investment opportunities in the hospitality sector generated by this unprecedented Crisis
Panelist
Jonathan Jaeger currently serves as a Managing Director with LW Hospitality Advisors, based in New York City.
Jonathan Jaeger, MAI
Senior Managing Director
LW Hospitality Advisors
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Prior to joining LWHA, Mr. Jaeger had been with Pinnacle Advisory Group from January of 2008 through January of 2014. In addition to his role with LWHA, Mr. Jaeger is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU.
Prior to his advisory career, Mr. Jaeger held various operational and accounting/finance positions with Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Kimpton Hotels & Resorts. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration. Mr. Jaeger is a designated member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI).
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Jonathan is the Founder and CEO of JF Capital Advisors, which is a strategic and capital structure advisory firm focused on the hospitality industry.
Jonathan Falik
CEO
JF Financial Advisors
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Previously, Jonathan was a Senior Managing Director and Head of Hospitality Capital Markets at BGC Partners. Simultaneously, he was the Head of Investment Sales at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Managing Director and Head of the Hospitality Investment Banking group at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Jonathan was the CEO of Eagle Hospitality, a private hotel REIT, owning 13 properties and 3,500 keys, which was acquired by JF Capital and its partners in 2007. Prior to founding JF Capital, Jonathan was an investment banker at Bear Stearns in New York. As both an advisor and a principal, Jonathan has worked on numerous completed M&A and financing transactions involving well over 2,000 hotels and over $25 billion of transaction value.
He has extensive experience with acquisitions and dispositions of public and private companies, asset management restructurings, portfolio sales and single asset sales, equity and debt financing, high yield financing and mortgage financing. He has extensive hospitality experience as an agent, advisor, principal, owner, borrower, guarantor, franchisee, lender and asset manager.
Jonathan graduated from Rutgers College with a degree in economics and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Jonathan has lectured and presented at numerous hotel industry events including New York University's International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference, Americas Lodging Investment Summit, Meet the Money, and the Hospitality Lawyer Conference. Jonathan also presents regularly at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and its Graduate School of Architecture, and Rutgers University.
He is a founding member of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Circle and has been an adjunct professor of Real Estate Finance at NYU’s Graduate Real Estate Institute.
Jonathan is the Founder and CEO of JF Capital Advisors, which is a strategic and capital structure advisory firm focused on the hospitality industry. Previously, Jonathan was a Senior Managing Director and Head of Hospitality Capital Markets at BGC Partners. Simultaneously, he was the Head of Investment Sales at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. Prior to that, Jonathan was a Managing Director and Head of the Hospitality Investment Banking group at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Jonathan was the CEO of Eagle Hospitality, a private hotel REIT, owning 13 properties and 3,500 keys, which was acquired by JF Capital and its partners in 2007. Prior to founding JF Capital, Jonathan was an investment banker at Bear Stearns in New York. As both an advisor and a principal, Jonathan has worked on numerous completed M&A and financing transactions involving well over 2,000 hotels and over $25 billion of transaction value.
He has extensive experience with acquisitions and dispositions of public and private companies, asset management restructurings, portfolio sales and single asset sales, equity and debt financing, high yield financing and mortgage financing. He has extensive hospitality experience as an agent, advisor, principal, owner, borrower, guarantor, franchisee, lender and asset manager.
Jonathan graduated from Rutgers College with a degree in economics and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Jonathan has lectured and presented at numerous hotel industry events including New York University's International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference, Americas Lodging Investment Summit, Meet the Money, and the Hospitality Lawyer Conference. Jonathan also presents regularly at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and its Graduate School of Architecture, and Rutgers University.
He is a founding member of the Columbia Business School Real Estate Circle and has been an adjunct professor of Real Estate Finance at NYU’s Graduate Real Estate Institute.
Panelist
Mr. Hercher is a Founding Principal of RobertDouglas and brings 25 years of investment banking and capital markets expertise to the firm. He has held senior leadership positions at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate, Sonnenblick Goldman and Cushman & Wakefield.
Douglas Hercher
Principal
Robert Douglas
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During his career, Mr. Hercher has advised clients on in excess of $40 billion of transactions including the acquisition, financing or recapitalization of more than 100 separate hotel, resort, and lodging portfolios, totaling in excess of $25 billion and located throughout North America, Europe, and the Caribbean.
He also has extensive experience with gaming, retail, office and residential properties. Representative luxury hotel and/or gaming transactions arranged by Mr. Hercher include:
Plaza Hotel (New York), sale
Four Seasons Hotel (New York), sale
Regent Beverly Wilshire (LA), sale
Plaza Athenee (New York), buy-side advisory & asset management
Highland Hospitality Corporation, recapitalization
Raleigh Hotel (South Beach), renovation financing
J.W. Marriott Resort & Casino (Las Vegas), senior financing
Princess Resort & Casino (Bahamas), sale and senior financing
Mr. Hercher has been a member of numerous industry groups, as well as being registered with FINRA as a Series 24 Securities Principal. He is a regular speaker at industry events including speaking at the Federal Reserve Bank and has contributed to articles in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Hotel Business, Bloomberg, REFI, and Real Estate Forum.
He currently resides in Westchester County and is an avid skier, diver, sailor, and runner (completed 2011 NYC Marathon).
Panelist
Allie is responsible for implementing Virgin Hotels’ global growth strategy. Allie’s primary responsibilities include sourcing and acquiring properties in key gateway cities, and structuring transactions that work for Virgin Hotels and our Owner/Developer partners.
Allie Hope
Chief Development Officer
Virgin Hotels
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Prior to joining Virgin, Allie worked on acquisitions, dispositions and asset management at Sunstone Hotel Investors where she was instrumental in the acquisition and disposition of over $1 billion of hotel transactions.
Allie was previously a partner at HMR Analytics, a hospitality asset management firm based in California, and a consultant with PKF Consulting, one of the top advisory services firms in the hospitality industry.
Other experiences include hotel operations with Interstate Hotels and Resorts, spa development at Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and investment banking with WR Hambrecht.
Allie is a graduate of Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration where she received the Dean’s Baccalaureate Service Award, serves as a board member for the Cornell Hotel Society, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, Cornell University, and NYU, and was named Southern California Real Estate “Woman of Influence.”
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Mr. Robert Sonnenblick, Chairman of Sonnenblick Development, LLC, is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania with more than 30 years of experience in various aspects of real estate development and real estate finance.
Bob Sonnenblick
Chairman
Sonnenblick Development LLC
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From 1981 to 1991 Mr. Sonnenblick was the driving force and power behind Sonnenblick-Goldman Corporation of California. Mr. Sonnenblick completed over $1.5 Billion of commercial real estate transactions on the West Coast, and as a result is regarded as one of the West Coast's leaders in the field of commercial real estate finance.
Among the more notable projects for which Mr. Sonnenblick personally structured the financing for are The Beaudry Center, Los Angeles, California ($197 million), the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Pasadena, California ($97 million), One Waterfront Plaza, Honolulu, Hawaii ($100 million), and the Los Angeles World Trade Center, Los Angeles, California ($55 million).
Panelist
Romain Semmel, is an Investment Director at Pygmalion Capital Advisers LLP, a London-based real estate group specialized in hotel investing with particular focus on Special Situations and Opportunistic investments in the European Hospitality sector.
Romain Semmel
Investment Director, Pygmalion Capital Advisers LLP
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With more than 10 years of experience in pan-European Hotel and Hospitality transactions sector, Romain was, prior joining Pygmalion, working as Senior Vice President - European Transactions and Head of France for JLL Hotel & Hospitality Group, a leading global real estate investment and services firm.
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