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Hilton's Legal Department Is Working Overtime These Days

Goodness. We were cruising for some news this morning, you know, checkin' out what's going on in and around the ol' hotel world. Not surprisingly, lots of headlines were about Hilton getting sued. We didn't think much of them until we realized that not all of those headlines were about Hilton getting sued over Denizen. Oy.

Hilton's legal department seems to be working overtime these days: now the massive hotel company is getting sued by a Northern Ireland company in a £10m case involving the Hilton Belfast. Goodness. From the Financial Times:

Ewart Properties, which owns 25 per cent of Belfast Hilton, the company set up to finance and build the hotel, claims it is owed unpaid dividends of £1m.

As a result of alleged breaches of the shareholder agreement and a related lease, Ewart claims it cannot reasonably be expected to remain as a shareholder and is seeking a court order requiring Hilton to buy its stake, valued by property experts at around £10m.

This one is (obvs) not as insane as the Denizen case, but we can't help but notice that times are definitely pretty tough for Hilton who, not one month ago, was kind of on top of the world after announcing two new brands, Home2 Suites and Denizen.