Hospitality Transactions Expertise; ISHC Member

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Michael C. Shindler is President of Four Corners Advisors, Inc. (FCA), a hospitality transactions consultancy and advisory firm he established in June 2007 and relaunched in May 2014. FCA provides strategic, transactional and asset management services to developers or investors in the conception, programming, planning and negotiation of hospitality transactions, advisory services in brand entry to the hospitality marketplace, restructuring and workout services to lenders and borrowers for hotel loans, and expertise in dispute resolution matters through service as an arbitrator or an expert witness. Mr. Shindler is also a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (www.ishc.com). Mr. Shindler’s career arc has involved positions of increasing responsibility in the hospitality transactions industry over the last 40 years, working with a major brand in a development capacity as both General Counsel and, sequentially, as the senior development executive, hospitality brokerage and consulting boutique, an international luxury brand, a destination resort company, a major integrated resort gaming operator/developer and a lifestyle brand. In addition, prior to his entry into the hospitality industry, Mr. Shindler held senior development positions with a major real estate syndication firm and practiced law in Chicago from 1976 to 1984. Mr. Shindler has spoken and written extensively on the relationship among hotel owners, hotel managers and hotel franchisors and the impact of the legal system on those relationships and is a regular speaker at hospitality investment conferences. From 2014 through 2022, Mr. Shindler was a regular faculty member for the Hotel & Tourism Law Program at the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, DC, where he was an Adjunct Associate Professor from 2017 through 2020. Mr. Shindler has also lectured to both graduate and undergraduate hospitality classes at several other hospitality programs at several universities in the US and France. Mr. Shindler received his AB in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1973 and his JD from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1976. Mr. Shindler and his wife, Andrea Gellin Shindler, live in Phoenix.