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Provided by Rachel Bates
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Rachel Bates, Global Vice Chair of Latham's Real Estate Practice, advises clients on all aspects of their most complex and significant real estate transactions across a variety of asset classes, with a particular focus on the hospitality industry.
A nationally regarded real estate lawyer, Ms. Bates serves a broad range of market participants, including private equity sponsors, developers, leading hospitality brands, family offices, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and institutional investors. She frequently serves as a go-to advisor to real estate owners, operators, and developers on every facet of complex transactions. A versatile practitioner, Ms. Bates brings particular experience advising both owner and brand-side clients in the hospitality industry. Her practice includes single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, development projects, including public-private partnerships joint ventures and other preferred equity structured vehicles, financings, including mortgage financings, mezzanine financings, construction financings, and bridge financings, management agreements, franchise agreements, and development agreements, acquisitions of distressed debt, and repositioning of distressed assets through recapitalization or negotiated workouts.