Tim Hudak has negotiated more than 2000 hotel management and franchise agreements and numerous real estate joint ventures for the acquisition and development of hotels, hotel secured credit facilities for more than $5 billion and hotel real estate acquisitions and divestitures totaling in excess of $10 billion. Prior to joining the firm, Tim was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Interstate Hotels where he played a lead role and acted as primary negotiator of the merger for the nation's two largest independent hotel management companies. He now has 20 years of full-time experience in the hospitality industry. Representative Matters · Maintains an extensive and growing hotel transactional practice representing hotel owners, lenders, developers, real estate investment funds, franchisees, and management companies that includes successful consummation of multiple management, franchise joint venture and financing transactions in connection with hotels throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, India, China, Morocco, the Netherlands, Hungary, Indonesia and Russia; · Oversees a substantial hospitality practice providing legal services in connection with day-to-day hotel operational matters. Professional Affiliations Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations American Hotel and Motel Association Articles/Speeches/Presentations · "Alternative Billing Arrangements," co-presented at Eckert Seamans' annual Continuing Legal Education program, August 2010. · "Doing Business in United States: Pennsylvania," PLC Cross-border Doing Business in Handbook 2010 Edition, co-authored with Elizabeth W. Brunins |