Services

Bringing 360° thinking to transactional challenges

What sets us apart?

Experience Matters

After a career in excess of 45 years, with more than thirty-five (35) years devoted to the hotel industry, with particular regard to both domestic and international experience in acquisitions and development; management contract work for and with hotel companies (both public & private) and owner/developers; oversight of operations and owner relations for a branded hotel and casino company; and brokerage and consulting, coupled with a legal and commercial real estate background, I bring a unique basis on which to offer the services of Four Corners Advisors, Inc. as a consultant and advisor to owners or developers, operators, sources of capital and financing, potential buyers and others.

Four Corners’ principal can provide expert services in dispute resolutions ranging from expert advisor and expert witness to full-scale arbitration panelist.

What we do

Our services reflect our expertise – and we are very good at what we do

Acquisitions

  • Assist clients in acquisition processes (due diligence, business plans, negotiation and closing of transactions)
  • Assemble lists of potential professional advisors, including designers, engineers and other design professionals, appraisers and feasibility consultants, each with relevant experience
  • Assist in the identification and selection of appropriate brand and management company for a particular hotel property
  • Coordinate the ownership transition

    • Development

    We advise on location and property positioning for owners and developers, including programming and brand fundamentals.

    Repositioning

    We complete thorough operational evaluations and market analyses. Our results-oriented recommendations are designed for implementation.

    Development

    We advise on location and property positioning for owners and developers, including programming and brand fundamentals.

    Alternative Dispute Resolution

    We provide expert services in dispute resolutions ranging from expert advisor and expert witness to full-scale arbitration panelist.
    • Assist clients in acquisition processes (due diligence, business plans, negotiation and closing of transactions)
    • Assemble lists of potential professional advisors, including designers, engineers and other design professionals, appraisers and feasibility consultants, each with relevant experience
    • Assist in the identification and selection of appropriate brand and management company for a particular hotel property
    • Coordinate the ownership transition
    • Assist owners and developers in preparation of appropriate programming and cooperate with design professionals in the creation of thorough development plans
    • Assist in assembling a development team familiar with the property type and location characteristics
    • Assist in the identification and selection of appropriate brand and management company for a particular hotel property
    • Coordinate the preparation of necessary financial models
    • Coordinate the critical path to opening
    • Provide asset management oversight
    • Evaluation of the existing property, its management, its marketing and financial plans and senior management personnel
    • Assessment of the property within its market milieu (competitive set) and the overall market itself
    • Recommend necessary operating changes
    • Coordinate the property’s preparation of projections with new operating principles
    • Coordinate necessary transitions of management companies
    • Provide asset management oversight
    • Evaluate and assess the existing asset, operations, management, market and parties
    • Review rights and obligations of both property owner (debtor) and lender
    • Recommend a plan tailored to the parties and the asset
    • Evaluate and assess the status of the client’s organization, business plan and personnel
    • Recommend a customized and appropriate business plan
    • Coordinate implementation with affected parties
    • Create processes and protocols, as appropriate, to provide guidelines to affected parties
    • Experienced arbitrator in proceedings between parties in a hotel dispute context, whether solo or as part of a panel and whether as a private, dual engagement or under the auspices of AAA or JAMS or other ADR provider (e.g., ICC International Court of Arbitration)
    • Provide “expert” services in “expert dispute resolution” matters designated in certain Hotel Management Agreements
    • Expert services for parties to disputes in hospitality matters, both testifying and advisory expert services
    • Mediation services for ripe disputes in anticipation of litigation or arbitration

    hospitality

    Our practice is exclusively dedicated to the hospitality space – and has been for over 35 years.  Hotels, casinos, restaurants and adaptive reuse are our specialties.

    transactions

    We have decades of experience advising at the critical points in a transaction process – when our clients most need guidance.

    Consulting

    We work with owners around the world, assembling teams and providing operational analysis and strategic plans to ensure their property’s success.

    We provide comprehensive services
    across the hospitality industry

    Contact Us
    The principal of FCA, Michael Shindler, has more than 45 years of sophisticated legal and transactional experience in commercial real estate, of which more than 35 years have been spent in the hospitality field.
    He has acted as an expert witness, expert in dispute resolution and both solo and panel arbitrator where called for by hospitality agreements.
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