Consultants to the Hotel Industry.
Berins & Co., LLC provides hotel owners, lenders, investors and operators with candid, hard-hitting, objective advisory services on a broad range of issues.
The lodging industry has always been cyclical and closely correlated with general economic trends. In good times, experience and objectivity are required to avoid "irrational exuberance" and to plot a rational growth strategy. When the economy is buffeted by strong headwinds, and hotel values slip, the lessons learned by those who have faced these challenges through many cycles help avoid exacerbating the situation and allow sound workout planning.
Led by David A. Berins, a forty-four year veteran of the industry, Berins & Co., LLC serves a blue-chip list of clients ranging from the world's largest lodging investors, lenders and management companies to single independent boutique properties.
Debbi Berins, David's partner and wife, has twenty-nine years of experience in creating successful architectural design visions for hotels, restaurants, bars, spas, offices and custom homes. Her design vision and advice to architects, interior designers, and operators has helped them make their projects both a financial and aesthetic success.
In addition to our professional expertise and experience, what these clients value is Berins & Co., LLC's truly independent point of view and our candor in communicating our findings and advice.
We add value to hotel assets through:
Acquisitions
& Development
We help investors assess opportunities and develop realistic views
about the potential for success.
Asset
Management
We help owners and managers to work as a team to maximize asset value - without the adversarial relationship which often poisons the opportunity to do so.
Operations
We objectively evaluate operations and marketing and recommend ways
to build revenues and control expenses.
Strategic
Planning
We help investors and operators to identify strategic options
for a hotel asset or portfolio and understand their potential outcomes.
Design
Review
We help hotel owners and operators by advising on and reviewing space
programs, flow and functionality, architectural design, food & beverage
concepts, furniture & fixtures selections, and capital budgets
for both new construction and renovations.
Workouts & Restructurings
We work with lenders and owners to maximize the value of troubled hotel assets by evaluating the potential results of various alternatives with regard to restructuring debt, forebearance, foreclosures or deed-in-lieu transfers, bankruptcy, and attracting new capital. We have helped prepare plans of reorganization and review those prepared by debtors, and have testified as experts in US Bankruptcy Courts in several districts. We advise lenders and borrowers on their options as to hotel real estate and on related issues such as brand, management contract and asset management strategies.
Dispute
Resolution
We help principals and counsel in a broad range of disputes as arbitrators, consultants
and expert witnesses.
The scope of our consultancy is truly global. We have served as advisors
on hotels in hundreds of markets from Boston to Honolulu in the U.S.,
in Europe, the Caribbean and in Asia.
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