Holland & Hart LLP

For more than 40 years Holland & Hart has been providing resort, hospitality and leisure-business clients with the results-oriented legal counsel and innovative business solutions they need to grow and succeed in this tourism economy. Whether you are planning a mixed-use resort development, operating an urban boutique hotel, or renegotiating lending and management agreements for a resort property, Holland & Hart has the experience and legal expertise to assist you at every stage of the business life cycle.

With offices in Aspen, Colorado, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Salt Lake City, Utah, Holland & Hart has long been involved in ski area and golf course development projects. Our attorneys are knowledgeable, not only about the unique regulations and codes that affect development projects in mountain resort towns, but - because they regularly appear before those towns' local planning and zoning commissions - they can also offer valuable insight into the unwritten policies, procedures and inclinations of decision makers that often influence the outcome of a particular development issue.

Our Resort, Lodging & Leisure Industry Group is comprised of industry specialists in the areas of law most important to the hospitality and tourism industry:

• Commercial Real Estate & Resort Development
• Zoning & Entitlements
• Project Construction & Design Contracts
• Resort Financing & Receivables Financing
• Lease & Use Agreements
• Ski Area Representation
• Hotel Management & Operations Issues
• Vacation & Fractional Ownership & Condominium Development
• Taxation, Conservation Easements & Tax Credits
• State & Federal Regulatory Permitting & Compliance - Environmental & Forest Service
• Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property
• Gaming
• Water Rights & Wetlands
• Natural Resources & Minerals
• Indian Law

Because legal issues facing the resort and hospitality industry go beyond land acquisition and bricks-and-mortar issues, we offer a multi-disciplinary approach to the industry's most challenging legal problems. Linked by state-of-the-art communications systems, a real estate attorney working in our Aspen office on your ski area base development can tap the expertise of one of our Denver environmental attorneys for a quick solution to a wastewater permitting issue. Or one of our business lawyers in Boise, who is counseling you on the sale of a hotel property, can contact our Boulder attorneys for practical advice on handling employee layoffs and compliance with the WARN Act. The end result is seamless and coordinated legal services that are delivered in the most efficient, responsive and cost-effective manner possible.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.