Burnetts Solicitors LLP
Description
Burnetts’ cross-discipline Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality Team plays a leading role in the tourism sector, offering specialist legal advice for businesses operating within the leisure and tourism industry.
The team works for a diverse range of leisure, tourism and hospitality clients, including hotels, B&Bs, caravan parks, restaurants, visitor attractions, leisure operators and tourism membership groups.
Their experience includes the following:
Burnetts’ Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality team has advised on the sale and acquisition of numerous hotels, caravan parks and leisure businesses throughout the Lake District, Cumbria and beyond. This includes the transfer of multi-million pound luxury hotels and caravan parks.
Praised by Legal 500 for its “competence, capability and capacity”, its Commercial Property Team has advised on numerous acquisitions, sales and lettings of hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, pubs, time-shares and visitor attractions.
Burnetts’ in-house planning experts work extensively in the sector, helping tourist attractions, tour operators, caravan park owners and others to achieve their development and expansion goals, especially within the constraints of the Lake District National Park and World Heritage Site.
They also have specialists who deal with associated licensing matters and can provide due diligence support to enable tourism and hospitality businesses to be financed or re-financed.
Burnetts’ specialist Banking team is very experienced in advising leisure and tourism businesses and their lenders on putting in place new loans and further advances. They have acted on acquisitions of holiday parks, refinances of hotel chains and also development loans for extensions and refurbishments of existing accommodation. Their commercial lawyers anticipate and cover off the lender’s requirements, so that drawdown of funds can be achieved quickly and easily.
Burnetts also has an Employment and HR team which provides a full range of support to leisure, tourism and hospitality businesses including the provision of seasonal and permanent employment contracts, day-to-day advice on managing grievances, absence and other HR issues and delivering high level support for difficult or sensitive employment tribunal claims.
It includes specialist employment law lawyers and highly experienced human resources consultants delivering a service to leisure, tourism and hospitality clients across the UK, but with particular focus on the North of England.
Advice on commercial disputes is provided by Burnetts’ ‘truly pragmatic’ Dispute Resolution team. They’ve helped accommodation providers, attractions and hospitality businesses with a wide range of commercial disputes, including property disputes, customer complaints, breach of contract claims and loss of tourist business.
Burnetts is very proud to be a Strategic Partner of Cumbria Tourism. It is also a member of Keswick Tourism Association and works closely with several other leading tourism, leisure and hospitality sector organisations in the Lake District and Cumbria.
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Burnetts is a proud Cumbrian company and has a long heritage within Cumbria’s tourism and hospitality industries, having advised tourism and hospitality clients for many decades and helped them with countless transactions over the years.
As a firm it is embedded within the leisure and tourism sector, so is well versed in helping clients through both periods of growth, and times of need. The team understands the ups and downs of the industry and is committed to continuing to provide this support to Cumbria Tourism and its members in the years to come.
Cumbria Tourism Member offer:
We’re very proud to be a Strategic Partner of Cumbria Tourism and to offer a FREE Business Review for you as a Cumbria Tourism member, to help ensure all legal aspects of your business are as strong as they can be. Your Business Review will be with our specialist Leisure and Hospitality team and we’ll spend around an hour together, giving your business a good legal health check. We can go through a ‘pick n’ mix’ of some of the following areas that concern you:
- A review of your business structure
- A review of your key commercial agreements
- A review of your key employment contracts
- A review of your property ownership and extent
- A review of your licensing and regulatory requirements
- A data protection review of your privacy policy and data processing agreements
The review can take place at one of our offices in Carlisle, Cockermouth or Kendal, we can come to you, or we can meet you online. It’s easy to arrange – just contact us on the details below:
Robbie Mather – 01228 552237 – rma@burnetts.co.uk
Jennifer Bell – 01228 934409 – jbe@burnetts.co.uk