Bio

Alan Tantleff is the Leader of the Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure industry practice and specializes in real estate. Mr. Tantleff has more than 30 years of experience in lodging, gaming and real estate investment and development. Mr. Tantleff applies his broad background and experience in hospitality to a wide variety of engagements, with a particular focus on strategy, business process improvement, initial public offering preparedness, investment banking and transactional support, and workouts and financial restructurings. Mr. Tantleff has advised boards of directors, chief executive officers, lenders, borrowers and other stakeholders on numerous high-profile hospitality matters. Mr. Tantleff began his career at the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey as the senior operations analyst responsible for the profitable operation of the casino-hotel. After that, he was recruited to manage the $2 billion hospitality portfolio of The Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”), the nation’s largest institutional owner of hotels. Here he oversaw all phases of Prudential’s investment strategy, including liaising with managers, partners and investors; acquisitions, dispositions and due diligence; and asset management. After executing several private and public market transactions for the insurer, Mr. Tantleff joined Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels (“JLL”) as the leader of the New York office, where he led the brokerage group’s most active practice and initiated the company’s foray into asset management. At JLL, he was a founding member of the International Capital Committee, which matched international capital with opportunities globally. At the onset of the financial crisis, he joined BlackRock Financial Services, leading the efforts in restructuring the hospitality component of the financial manager’s $6 billion sub-debt portfolio. He also held senior management positions at Hotel Asset Value Enhancement and Granite Partners (Savilles).