Teresa K. Goebel

Teresa Goebel is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Department and a member of its Real Estate Industry group. Her practice encompasses a broad range of commercial real estate matters, including hotel transactions, joint ventures, financings and real property sales and acquisitions. She joined Goodwin in 2008. Teresa is co-chair of Goodwin’s Pro Bono Committee and a former member of the Partnership Committee.

Ms. Goebel represents many of the world’s leading hotel companies. She focuses particularly on the acquisition, development, financing, management and sale of hotel, resort and fractional ownership properties. She regularly negotiates, structures and documents management agreements and equity and debt investments for hotels, resorts and other mixed use hospitality projects throughout the world, in locations ranging from New York City to Paris to Macau. Ms. Goebel also has significant experience representing lenders and borrowers in financings of various classes of commercial real estate assets located throughout the United States.

Ms. Goebel served on the Program Planning Committee for the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), the leading hotel conference in the United States, for three years. Ms. Goebel is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and State Bar of New York.

Ms. Goebel has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading lawyer in the hospitality area in the United States. Ms. Goebel was selected by the Daily Journal for its “Top Women Lawyers” feature in 2014, which honors women attorneys for their significant achievements in various practices across the legal industry.

Ms. Goebel’s recent speaking engagements include the following:

• Speaking as a panelist on “Hotel Business Update: Acquisitions & Spin-Offs” at the Hotel & Lodging Legal Summit sponsored by Georgetown Law School in November 2015
• Moderating a panel on “Hot Topics” in Purchase and Sale Agreements” at PLI’s all-day conference on hotel law in September 2015
• Moderating a panel on “How Do You Select and Negotiate a Management Contract” at The Americas Lodging Investment Summit in January 2015
• Speaking as a panelist at the Travel Industry Executive Women’s Network Forum sponsored by the Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association in January 2015
• Moderating a panel “Financing of Hotel Transactions” at PLI’s all-day conference on hotel law in September 2014
• Developing and presenting with a colleague “Hotel Management Agreements: The Owner-Operator Relationship” as a PLI briefing in July 2013

Ms. Goebel has been cited or quoted in the following press articles:

• “Hotels come roaring back, and the future is looking bright,” Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Podcast (November 19, 2021)
• “Purgatory Grips $146 Billion of Distressed Commercial Property,” Bloomberg (February 25, 2021)
• “Someone Says They Caught Coronavirus at Your Hotel: Now What?” Skift (May 21, 2020)
• “U.S. Hotels Slated for More Aid – Without Liability Protections,” Skift (December 18, 2020)
• "4 Essential Reads for Hospitality Lawyers," Law360 (December 8, 2015)
• "Investment in Uber Lux Hotels Ramps Up," Lodging Magazine (November 17, 2015)
• "Big Chains Aim to Book Some Grand Hotel Deals," FT Weekend (November 7, 2015)
• "Hotel Conversions Hot, But Tricky To Seal Up," Law360 (December 19, 2013)
• "Goodwin Procter Seals $800M in Summer Hospitality Deals," Law360 (October 24, 2013)
• "Signed, sealed, but not always delivered," HotelNewsNow.com (September 30, 2013)
• "9th Circ. Hotel-Condo Ruling Eases Developers' SEC Worries," Law360 (August 16, 2013)
• "New brands choose NYC as launching pad," HotelNewsNow.com (July 29, 2013)
• "Hotel Recovery," Urban Land (September 20, 2011)

Ms. Goebel’s recent publications include:

• "Issues to Consider on the Path Forward for the Hospitality Industry,” goodwinlaw.com (November 19, 2020)
• "Negotiating Early Termination Rights," HotelNewsNow.com (November 5, 2013)
• "Bad Boy' Carve-outs Mitigate Risk," HotelNewsNow.com (October 16, 2012)
• "Hotel Management Changes Cause Complications," HotelNewsNow.com (June 30, 2012)
• "Boilerplate Provisions Key in Hotel Contracts," HotelNewsNow.com (June 4, 2012)
• "Midnight Raids of Luxury Hotels," Daily Journal (December 27, 2011)
• "Preparing the Modern Hotel Manager for the Midnight Raid (co-author)," RESource (December 12, 2011)
• "A Cloudy Day in Paradise for Hotels in California (co-author)," Distressed Assets Investor, May 31, 2010
• "Acquiring Hotels: SNDAs Making It Harder (co-author)," RESource (March 31, 2010)