Samantha Ahuja focuses her practice on hotel acquisitions, operations, development and finance, hotel management agreements, licensing agreements, and commercial real estate acquisition and sale.

She advises domestic and international clients on the acquisition and disposition of hotels and other commercial property, hotel management and operations, franchising, licensing and branding, restaurant management agreements, lease negotiations, and casino agreements. She regularly prepares and negotiates purchase and sale agreements, financing and development agreements, and other documents related to the acquisition, financing, development, leasing, management, and disposition of real and personal property with a focus on hotels and resorts.

Elissa Gainsburg is a founding partner of Pardo Jackson Gainsburg, PL. For more than 25 years, she has focused her practice on construction and property-related matters, from the inception of a project to its completion. She handles all elements of projects for the firm’s developer and contractor/subcontractor clients, including drafting and negotiating construction contracts and lender agreements. She guides clients through the complicated legal issues that may be encountered during the construction and completion of a project, including resolutions with all parties, condominium turnovers and negotiations.

In drafting complex construction agreements, Elissa is instrumental in providing protections for her clients should future disputes arise and helps them to avoid conflicts by anticipating potential needs and issues. Elissa also handles commercial leasing for numerous clients and their large-scale developments, ensuring coordination between clients, their lenders and tenants.

Eric Sigman is a Shareholder in RIW’s Corporate & Business Law and Hospitality Practice Groups.

Eric focuses his corporate practice in the areas of corporate formation, capitalization, succession planning, commercial leasing, and mergers and acquisitions. His transactional practice includes counseling clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock purchases, buy-sell agreements, corporate formation, partnership agreements, contract drafting and review and other general corporate matters.

Eric’s Hospitality practice has a focus on Franchise law including, franchise agreement negotiations, franchise disclosure document drafting, analysis and review, commercial real estate, retail leasing, corporate formation and any related business counseling.