Maurice Robinson
Maurice Robinson & Associates, Inc.

Mr. Robinson is an expert in the field of hotel and resort consulting. He has been providing litigation support services, strategic advisory services, hotel development consulting, market feasibility studies, and appraising hotels and other hospitality-related real estate for over thirty years. His expertise includes dispute resolution, expert witness testimony and advising clients on development planning, deal structuring and financial issues related to hotel and resort development and investment.


Representative Accomplishments

Mr. Robinson's accomplishments include providing property valuation, market demand assessment, due diligence, market repositioning, investment analysis and other acquisition and development advisory services to hundreds of clients nationwide. He has also been involved in resolving disputes, structuring ground leases, loans and other agreements, and working out troubled hotel and resort assets.

Mr. Robinson has extensive trial experience, having testified as an expert witness on many occasions, in venues including jury trials, AAA- and JAMS-sponsored arbitration panels, Federal Bankruptcy Courts in California, Arizona and Utah, and mediations. His valuation qualifications and expertise have resulted in many unique assignments, such as one involving appraising the Grand Canyon, for which he was awarded the coveted James Felt Creative Counseling Award. His case load as an expert witness in the past few years includes numerous State and Superior Court cases, arbitrations, bankruptcy court cases and mediations, involving over $3 billion of visitor-serving assets, including more than 130 hotels.

Additionally, Mr. Robinson has provided assistance to hotel owners, investors, lessors and lenders in the areas of negotiating management contracts, development agreements, franchise agreements, ground leases, loan documents, financing arrangements and partnership agreements.

As Principal with KPMG Peat Marwick, Mr. Robinson was the primary resource in the western United States for hotel development and financing issues, particularly full-service urban and resort properties. KPMG's clients included numerous upscale hotel companies.

Mr. Robinson has conducted appraisals, workouts and/or the original market feasibility studies on dozens of full-service hotels and resorts over the past thirty years, totaling over $12 billion in hotel assets. Additionally, he has been a financial advisor to the National Park Service, consulting on over thirty concessions nationwide, including Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon.