Hotel Investment 1H 2022

Laura Hernando is Managing Director of the Hotels Department at Colliers International Spain. She was  partner of irea from January 2017, when she was appointed to partner after more than ten years of professional career at the firm, until March 2018 when irea joined Colliers International. She specialises in advising on hotel sales, as well as on the sale and purchase of debt portfolios secured by hotel assets and company sales. She also has experience in structuring financing for the acquisition and development of hotels, in financial restructuring for hotel and real estate groups and in strategic consultancy for companies with interests invested in the hotel sector, including the negotiation of management contracts with hotel chains.

She began her career as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions department at Atlas Capital Close Brothers. Laura joined the irea Hotels division in 2005.

Jordi joined Colliers in 2021 where he is currently an Analyst in the Hotel & Resorts Division. Since joining the company, he has collaborated on hotel transaction projects, advised on the sale of hotel debt portfolios, as well as valuation and feasibility analysis.

Previously, in 2019 he joined Spinnia Asset Management as a Junior Analyst, carrying out an analysis of opportunities for Logistic, Hotels and Office assets located both in Spain and Portugal, offering operational advice to private and institutional investors.

Jordi holds a double degree in Business Administration and Management & Finance and Accounting from Universitat Rovira y Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, where he obtained honors for the thesis titlted Success Factors in Real Estate Crowdfunding. He completed his studies with an international mobility program at the School of Hotel Administration from Cornell University in the United States, for which he received the award for best international transcript.