Bio

Tim Hudak is the CEO of Eckert Seamans. He has negotiated more than 2000 hotel management and franchise agreements and numerous real estate joint ventures for the acquisition and development of hotels and hotel secured credit facilities for more than $5 billion, in addition to hotel real estate acquisitions and divestitures totaling in excess of $10 billion. Prior to joining the firm, Tim was senior vice president and general counsel for Interstate Hotels, where he played a lead role and acted as primary negotiator of the merger for the nation’s two largest independent hotel management companies. He now has more than 28 years of full-time experience in the hospitality industry. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS Maintains an extensive and growing hotel transactional practice representing hotel owners, lenders, developers, real estate investment funds, franchisees, and management companies that includes successful consummation of multiple management, franchise joint venture and financing transactions in connection with hotels throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, India, China, Morocco, the Netherlands, Hungary, Indonesia, and Russia.