Mr. Miguel Rivera

Mr. Rivera brings with him fourteen years of experience in hotel asset management, transactions, strategic advisory, financing, and valuation throughout the Americas. He is Senior Vice President of HVS's Asset Management & Advisory practice, and he is based out of New York City. He works with clients to align their investment objectives with the operations of their hotels, maximize operational efficiencies, and develop long term strategies that maximize asset value. Mr. Rivera has worked on nearly $1 billion of hotel transactions, and valued more than $12 billion worth of real estate. He has assisted clients to finance and recapitalize luxury development projects, and to obtain cross-border financing for resorts in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. He has advised institutional clients looking to make strategic investments in the hotel real estate market. Some of his clients include: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Colony Capital, Westmont Hospitality, LaSalle Investment Management, and Host Hotels.

Prior to joining HVS, Mr. Rivera was Senior Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, where he led that group’s Latin American operations. Before his tenure with Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, he was an Associate Director at Standard & Poor’s, where he served as the lead rating analyst for many CMBS transactions involving assets throughout the US, the Caribbean and Mexico. Previously, he was a Vice President at HVS; he formed part of the Vancouver and San Francisco HVS offices. He also initiated the firm’s Mexico business in 1999.