Corporate Legal Internship
Opportunity: Corporate Legal Internship
HHM Hotels (a leading hotel management and investment company) is looking for a legal intern to join its legal department. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from law firm trained attorneys and gain exposure to legal operations as well as real estate transactional matters. Through the course of this internship, you will gain exposure to contract review, real estate transactions, liquor licensing and other operational matters.
This summer internship is based at the Philadelphia Headquarters office.
Essential Job Functions
- Assist legal team in contract review, franchise agreements, licenses and permits, and other legal tasks.
- Assist with litigation matters, including litigation intake and review of related materials.
- Assist legal team with review and analysis of agreements and contracts, including purchase and sale agreements, financing documents and other real estate transaction documents.
Position Requirements
- First or second-year law students.
- Work experience prior to law school preferred.
- Strong interest in real estate transactions or hospitality preferred.
- Familiarity with the structure of various real estate entities, including joint ventures, partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, and other special purpose entities.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage information flow.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to work on independent tasks.
- Functional in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel and related programs for underwriting and financing hotel development projects.
- Solid presentation and power point skills as well as strong organizational skills.
- Ability to perform extremely well when faced with managing multiple priorities under time constraints.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
Work Environment and Context
- Typical for office environment, may require occasional weekend/evening work.
- Requires sitting for extended periods, use of hands and fingers to operate computers and keyboards.
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble - Own It
HHM Hotels
An Industry Leader in Hospitality
HHM Hotels is the preferred operator to many sophisticated and institutional owners of hotel real estate, including public and private owners, across the United States and Canada. We are known for consistent outperformance in operating results, the stability of our managed portfolio and operating teams, and our unrelenting focus on people, processes, and technology. HHM Hotels is tireless in delivering results and working closely with our owners across a portfolio of 240 hotels and over $2BN in managed revenues in the United States and Canada.
MANAGEMENT
For the past 30 years, HHM Hotels has focused on building out specific and differentiated capabilities and technology to serve our owners and drive industry-leading results in the areas of revenue generation, cost management, service delivery, and associate development and retention. In particular, we have focused on developing proprietary data, processes, and business systems to drive advantage and maintain our unwavering focus on results across every aspect of our managed hotels.
INVESTMENT
HHM Hotels has a highly active and productive investment team that seeks to leverage our operating capabilities and market knowledge to source, underwrite, and introduce deals to our stable of industry-leading investment partners. We have helped put together dozens of related deals and focus carefully on potential operational efficiencies, brand or market repositioning opportunities, and other ways that we can find value through our extensive market knowledge, operating capabilities, and in-house legal, asset management, and risk management teams.
BRAND POSITIONING
Our experience with branded and independent hotels allows us to quickly determine the brand positioning within a local market to ensure the highest operational profitability. We understand the demands of hotel openings and rebranding because we’ve been on the ground to lead them, from Forbes Five-Star property openings and global product launches to corporate rebranding projects around the world.
