Encouraged by positive metrics and the return of capital to the hospitality sector, the 23rd edition of Meet the Money®, the hospitality industry’s leading financial conference, is poised to bring together lenders, developers, hotel owners, operators and investors for two days of deal making May 6 – 8, 2013, at the Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
“Meet the Money® has evolved from a breakfast meeting in 1990 to a 2-day event attracting the leaders of the US hospitality industry and the investors who finance them,” said conference founder Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com and chairman of the Global Hospitality Group® of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM). “The scope of the conference has grown in direct proportion to the number and complexity of the issues the industry faces.”
For the past twenty years, hotel developers, owners and capital providers have come together at Meet the Money® to learn from the best minds in the hospitality industry, to move deals forward, strengthen relationships and forge new ones.
“What separates Meet the Money® from all the other hotel conferences out there, is we are all about the deals — no fluff. People come to Meet the Money® to find strategies for finding capital and finance, ” adds Guy Maisnik, Vice Chair of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®.
Movers and shakers from Wall Street, the CMBS world, hotel REITs, banks and credit companies and private capital and funds join us every year, looking for good projects and sharing their visions. With more than 100 speakers and 25 sessions, JMBM’s Meet the Money® Conference continues to attract almost 400 senior hotel industry executives from around the world.
This 2-day event will begin on Monday evening May 6, 2013 with a special reception, followed by great panels on financing, creating liquidity, enhancing value, making opportunistic investments, maximizing value on troubled assets, repositioning and deal making strategies.