Ellen S. Smith is Counsel in the Real Estate and Hospitality and Leisure Practice Groups at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and was formerly Senior Attorney at InterContinental Hotels Group in Atlanta. Ms. Smith has extensive hospitality industry experience and regularly works on hotel management, hotel finance and hotel development matters throughout North and Central America, the Caribbean and South America. She has been a speaker at industry conferences on such topics as hotel management agreements, hotel mixed-use projects and Caribbean hotel investment. She also has broad general experien...