Experience Over 10 years of experience in laws governing the nightlife, hospitality, and alcohol industries. Represents hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs in municipal land use and zoning approvals, business licensing and permitting at federal, state, and local levels, business transactions for the purchase and sale of hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs, acquisition of alcoholic beverage licenses, alcohol licensing and structuring of alcohol service operations, defending regulatory enforcement actions, administrative litigation, state and local government lobbying efforts, commercial leasing for alcohol industry tenants, assisting clients with business permitting and transfers of business licenses, contractual issues, obtaining business tax receipts, building permitting, certificates of use and occupancy, and other related operational permits. Clients include real estate developers, hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs, as well as management companies.