Hospitality Advisory Services
Transforming hospitality assets to improve cash flow and unlock value.
The team works across priorities, enhancing returns, addressing liquidity and risk, and maintaining service quality and brand standards.
By combining real estate insight with hands-on operational improvement, Pivot drives practical strategies to improve cash flow, stabilize performance, and position assets for long-term value creation.
Due Diligence & Risk Analysis
- Evaluating hospitality investments by identifying mispriced assets and assessing varying risk-return opportunities.
- Revenue drivers, cost structures, and market positioning analyses
- Underwriting assumptions and investment validation
- Operational risks and performance gaps identification
- Upside opportunities assessment across assets and operations
Operational Improvement
- Redesigning assets to improve day-to-day execution, guest experience, and performance.
- Reposition concepts to strengthen market relevance
- Upgrade physical environments through targeted renovation
- Optimize labor models, booking channels, and F&B operations
- Improve asset profitability and drive measurable margin expansion
Asset & Portfolio Strategy
- Advising portfolio composition, capital allocation, and ownership across assets.
- Data-driven market analysis, financial planning, and performance management
- Enhance cash flow, reporting, and overall financial outcomes
- Align asset performance with broader investment objectives
- Lead acquisition and disposition processes, including underwriting and due diligence
Restructuring & Turnaround
- Guiding stakeholders through complex, distressed situations through stabilization and communication across ownership and lender groups.
- Chapter 11 and lender negotiations
- Prioritize operational and asset transformation to unlock revenue
- Prepare for exit or recovery through capital structure solutions
Litigation support & Dispute Resolution
- Delivering rigorous financial and operational analysis to support legal proceedings and facilitate efficient resolutions.
- Provide expert reports and testimony including deposition preparation
- Damages quantification and mitigation
- Conduct document and data analysis for investigations
- Support mediation, arbitration, and broader disputes in coordination with counsel
Succession and Growth Transitions
- Working through critical transition periods with owners and management teams.
- Define clear succession plans and growth strategies
- Align stakeholders and strengthen operational foundations
- Prepare the business for its next phase
- Enable seamless transitions and long-term stability
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Meet our Hospitality Experts
Marley Dominguez
Managing Director
Marley advises owners, lenders, and operators on improving performance, repositioning assets, and driving growth across hotel and hospitality platforms. With over 20 years of experience, he combines institutional investment expertise with hands-on leadership in hotel acquisitions, renovations, branding, and operations to enhance asset value and guest experience.
Seth Wellisch
Managing Director
Seth advises clients on transactional, operational and acquisition matters. His deep understanding of real estate dynamics enables him to effectively assess and optimize real estate assets.
Mike Schlesinger
Managing Director
Mike helps clients navigate complex real estate transactions and asset-level challenges. His broad experience across multiple property types enables him to evaluate opportunities, structure solutions, and maximize asset value.
Mark King
Sr. Advisor
Mark King is a senior advisor and former CEO known for transforming some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Renowned for bold leadership and culture-driven performance, he now helps CEOs navigate critical inflection points with fresh strategy, creative insight, and disciplined execution.
Carlos Dupone
Advisor
Carlos brings deep expertise in hotel operations, capital structuring, and cross-border investment strategy, with a particular focus on complex repositioning and post-restructuring environments.