Alyona Antonenko

Alyona is a commercial lawyer with specialist experience in the hotel industry. She has 20 years’ experience working for top international law firms and in-house for the largest hotel companies in the world. Her clients include the world biggest hotel operators (such as Marriott and Wyndham), owners, developers and sector-focused lenders with projects in the UK, Russia/CIS, Europe, Turkey and India. Alyona advises on a wide range of development and operational legal issues. She structures, negotiates and drafts franchise and hotel management agreements, key money, development and joint venture agreements and related contract documentation and wholesale distribution agreements. She also advises on any operational issues arising during the full hotel project’s lifecycle. She provides training to in-house legal teams and develops boilerplate and templates of management and franchise agreements. Alyona is multilingual and is a dual-qualified solicitor in England & Wales and Russia. · Keystone Law