Industries Served
Hospitality Services
The hospitality and tourism industry is one of western North Carolina's largest and fastest-growing industries. Maintaining this dramatic growth presents significant challenges for the industry and our clients in it. Our firm has the in-depth industry knowledge and an ability to provide practical advice to support business objectives. Those in the hospitality industry — owners, developers, lenders, franchisees and others — require skilled, innovative and comprehensive legal services dealing with all phases of the hospitality business. At McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A., we provide a wide range of legal services to a cross-section of the hospitality and tourism industry including hotels, resorts, country clubs, tourist attractions, restaurants and lenders. Our depth of legal experience enables us to provide clients with a full complement of legal counsel who understand the industry. Our legal services cover a broad spectrum, including construction and development, ongoing general counsel, financing, acquisitions and dispositions, restructuring and leasing. Firm attorneys also offer our clients practical advice in many areas, such as contract negotiations, management contracts, hotel development and financing, restaurant leases and restaurant management agreements, work-outs and restructuring, and labor and employment issues.
Representative ClientsGrove Park Inn
Legal Team
W. Louis Bissette, Jr.
• Corporate and Entity Formation
• General Legal Counsel to Hotel and Restaurant Industry Clients
M. Charles "Chuck" Cloninger
• Construction Contract Formation, Review and Negotiation
• Construction Litigation
Thomas Christopher Grella
• Commercial Real Estate
• Review of Franchise Agreements
• Contract Formation
Christopher Baird Lyman
• Construction Contract Formation, Review and Negotiation
• Construction Litigation
Grant B. Osborne
• Employment and Labor Relations
Jeffrey J. Owen
• Corporate and Entity Taxation
Douglas Owen Thigpen
• Commercial Real Estate
