Partner Head of the CMS Hotels & Leisure Group

Tom is the Global Head of the Hotels & Leisure Group at CMS, based in London, where he is a corporate partner. As such, he specialises in mergers & acquisitions and in particular company and business acquisitions and joint ventures in the hotel sector, for clients such as AccorInvest, BlackRock, citizenM, Ennismore, Fattal Hotels, Henderson Park, Oaktree Capital, Schroders and a number of other investors.

He also advises owners, investors, developers, banks extensively on hotel management and franchise agreements across most brands and has advised several global and niche operators on their standard form management agreements. He advises banks on the corporate and management agreement aspects of hotel acquisition & development financings; refinancings; and restructurings of hotel portfolios.

In the legal directories, he is ranked Tier 1 in Chambers 2022 and a Leading Individual in Legal 500 2022. He is a member of the IHIF Advisory Board and Hospitality Channel’s Hospitality 250 list of global leading individuals in the sector.

English

IHIF Advisory Board OpRE Advisory Board Energy & Environmental Alliance General Counsels Committee Member, Leisure Property Forum Member, Hotel Property Network

1996 – LPC, College of Law 1995 – MA(Hons) Law, Clare College, Cambridge