Mr. Robinson is an expert in the field of hospitality & resort consulting, providing litigation support services, conducting damage analyses, economic & financial analyses, market feasibility studies, & appraising hotels, restaurants, timeshares, resorts & other hospitality-related real estate for over thirty years. My expertise includes dispute resolution, expert witness testimony & advising clients on hotel leases, development planning, deal structuring, & financial issues related to hospitality development & investment.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accomplishments include providing lease structuring, property valuation, market demand assessment, investment analysis, market repositioning, & acquisition & development advisory services to hundreds of clients. I have also been involved in resolving disputes, restructuring loans & other agreements, & working out troubled assets, including hotels, restaurants, timeshares, master-planned residential communities, & theme parks.

I have testified as an expert witness in venues including jury trials in California, Illinois, Florida & Texas Courts, several AAA- & JAMS-sponsored arbitration panels, Federal Bankruptcy Court, & mediations. My valuation expertise includes many unique assignments, such as one involving appraising the Grand Canyon, for which I was awarded the James Felt Creative Counseling Award by my peers in the Counselors of Real Estate. My experience as a hotel industry expert in disputes in the past few years involves more than 150 hotels, 20,000 hotel rooms, hundreds of timeshare units, five National Parks, & $2 billion of hotel assets.

Additionally, I have provided assistance to hospitality owners & landowners in the areas of negotiating ground & building leases, franchise agreements, management contracts, development agreements, financing arrangements, design-build agreements, tax-exempt bond financings & public-private partnership agreements.

As Principal with KPMG, I was the primary resource in the western U.S. for hospitality development, leasing & financing issues, particularly full-service urban & resort properties, including timeshare & fractional interval ownership, golf courses, spas & gaming.

I have conducted appraisals, workouts & /or market feasibility studies on hundreds of hospitality properties over the past thirty years, totaling over $12 billion in assets.

I have co-authored an article entitled “How to Value Commercial Improvements in a National Park” in the Winter 2000/Spring 2001 edition of Real Estate Issues; a chapter entitled “Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Hospitality Industry” in the textbook Hotel Investments: Issues & Perspectives, 4th edition (2006); a chapter entitled “Converting Existing Historic Buildings into Hotels” in the textbook Hotel Sustainable Development: Principals & Best Practices, 1st edition (2011); & an article entitled “Issue Review Boards™ – The Next Wave of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Hospitality Industry”.

BACKGROUND
Serving as President of Maurice Robinson & Associates LLC, providing advisory services to investors & developers in the Hospitality & Real Estate industries. Prior to founding Maurice Robinson & Associates LLC in 1999, I was a Principal with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, leading their western region Hospitality & Real Estate consulting practice for twelve years (1986-1998). Prior to KPMG, I was a Senior Consultant & Manager in the real estate & hospitality consulting practice of Pannell Kerr Forster (now PKF Consulting) for five years (1982-1986). My previous work experience also includes three years as senior economist with the real estate consulting firm of Williams-Kuebelbeck & Associates (1979-1982), & a year as an independent consultant (1978).

I hold a General Real Estate Appraisal certificate from the State of California; a master of public administration degree from the University of Southern California; a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota; a certificate of environmental management with a specialty in public/private partnerships from the Environmental Management Institute in Los Angeles; & a professional designation in financial planning from UCLA.

I have completed training in arbitration, both as a panel member & chairperson, with the Financial Industry National Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as with the Institute of Conflict Management (ICM), & have been selected to serve as an Arbitrator for FINRA, ICM & the American Arbitration Association (AAA). In seven of my recent arbitrations, I served as the Chairperson of the three-member panels. I am also a trained & experienced Mediator, having completed Mediation Training courses by the L. A. County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Services & ICM, & successfully mediated numerous hospitality & real estate-related cases.

I am a frequent lecturer at various real estate & hospitality industry-related seminars & conferences across the United States, & have spoken more than two dozen times at national & local hospitality industry conferences. I was the editor of KPMG’s Hospitality Update newsletter in the mid-1990s, & served on the Program Planning Committee of the annual UCLA Hotel Industry Investment Conference (now ALIS) for six years. I am also an annual Guest Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s MBA program’s Haas School of Real Estate.

AFFILIATIONS
I am a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC), where I was the Chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee & served on the Board of Directors for nine years. Other professional memberships include the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), & the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA). I am also a member of the Board of Arbitrators for the Financial Industry National Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Dispute Resolution.

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