Mr. Miguel Rivera

Mr. Rivera brings with him fourteen years of hotel real estate and finance experience throughout the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of HVS's Asset Management & Strategic Advisory practice, based out of San Francisco, where he helps clients align the operations of their hotels with their investment goals.

Prior to joining HVS, he was Senior Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, where he worked on more than $880 million worth of hotel transactions while leading that group’s Latin American operations. He served as the lead broker marketing several hotels for sale, including the Fairmont Acapulco Princess, the JW Marriott Rio de Janeiro, the Hyatt Regency Cancun, the Sheraton Ambassador Monterrey, the Sheraton Lima Hotel, and several Club Med properties. He assisted clients to finance and recapitalize luxury mixed-use development projects, and to obtain cross-border financing for resorts in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. He also advised institutional clients looking to make strategic investments in the Latin American hotel real estate market. Some of Mr. Rivera’s past clients include: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Colony Capital, Westmont Hospitality, LaSalle Investment Management, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund, and Host Hotels, among others. Before his tenure with Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, Mr. Rivera was an Associate Director at Standard & Poor’s, where he took a leading role in developing criteria to evaluate commercial mortgages secured by Mexican collateral. He also served as the lead rating analyst for many CMBS transactions involving assets throughout the US. Previously, he was a Vice President at HVS, where he valued more than $2 billion worth of hospitality real estate throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Mr. Rivera forrmed part of the Vancouver and San Francisco HVS offices. He also initiated the firm’s Mexico business in 1999.