Alaina B. Wartman

Overview

Alaina Wartman focuses her practice on corporate transactions within the hospitality and gaming industries. She works with real estate development companies, investors, and hotel management companies to draft and negotiate agreements related to the financing, development, management, and licensing of hotel assets. Alaina also negotiates and reviews day-to-day hotel agreements, such as services agreements, group sales agreements, and space leases.

Before joining the firm, Alaina worked as a tax associate at a large accounting firm, where she helped clients identify opportunities for tax refund or remediation, prepare tax appeals, and perform due diligence. Prior to practicing law, Alaina worked in finance at a large privately held hotel company, where she implemented, improved, and enforced auditing and accounting procedures.

During the course of her legal studies, Alaina interned for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice – Tax Division, and for The Honorable Joy Flowers Conti, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.