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David B. Waller

David Waller is Baker Hostetler’s senior hospitality partner in the firm’s Denver office. Working closely with nationally-known hospitality companies and independent developers, Dave has spent considerable time focusing on the business and legal issues related to the development and management of shared ownership (fractional, timeshare and destination clubs), condominium hotel and resort hotel and condominium projects. This work has allowed him to work with developers on projects located in urban environments (New York, Chicago, San Francisco), resort destinations (California, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Oregon and Texas) and international locales (Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Mexico).

More recently, Dave has been working on the repositioning and relaunch of resort ownership products. He is also busy assisting established and start-up businesses as they explore and implement alternative business models intended to provide new and supplementary travel and vacation options on a cost-efficient basis.

Based on the above experience, the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) asked Dave to draft first-of-its-kind legislation that would regulate the timeshare resale industry in Colorado (introduced as HB 12-1116) and to serve on ARDA’s travel club task force. Internationally, Dave is an active member of the working committee tasked with rewriting the timeshare laws in St. Maarten and advises on similar efforts in Grenada and Turks & Caicos. Based on Dave’s efforts, the Mexican government recognized Baker Hostetler as a primary (and only law firm) contributor to the new federal regulations governing the sale of shared ownership products.

Dave is licensed in both Colorado and Texas and is a regular speaker at the Shared Ownership Investment Conference, the ARDA Annual Conference and the Ragatz Fractional & Resort Real Estate Conference. Dave also lectures on shared ownership at the University of Denver’s Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management and at The Hospitality College - Johnson & Wales University. In his spare time, Dave is the editor and primary contributor to the HospitalityLawg® (www.hospitalitylawg.com), Baker Hostetler’s blog on issues impacting the hospitality industry.