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Pittsburgh Expansion Continues with New Hospitality Partner

Date: May 2, 2022
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that Gerard J. Hickel has joined the firm in Pittsburgh in the Business and Corporate practice.
 
Mr. Hickel has over 20 years of experience advising key players in the hospitality industry, including owners, operators, asset managers, developers and investors. He has a detailed understanding of hospitality assets and the critical business functions that impact ownership and operation of hotels, resorts, spas, golf courses, condominiums, restaurants and other food & beverage related businesses. 
 
Mr. Hickel counsels domestic and international clients on the full range of legal and operational issues that arise over the lifespan of a hospitality operating business. An experienced negotiator of hundreds of hotel management agreements across all types of hotels and resorts ranging from branded urban-luxury to boutique branded assets to select service projects, he is intimately familiar with the complex inner-workings of multi-faceted hospitality projects, including the cross-functioning dynamics of individual departments within a larger hotel operating business.
About Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP: With over 180 attorneys, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston provides a comprehensive range of sophisticated, cost-effective business law and litigation services to clients ranging from innovative start-ups to middle market companies to global enterprises.  Our growing Mid-Atlantic footprint includes seventeen offices in Delaware, D.C., Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.