Nominees in the four ALIS award categories include:

Jack A. Shaffer Financial Advisor of the Year 2007

• Arthur Adler, Managing Director & CEO, Americas, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
• Jackson Hsieh, Managing Director and Global Head of Real Estate, Lodging & Leisure Group, UBS Securities, LLC
• Robert T. Koger, President, Molinaro Koger

Merger & Acquisition of the Year 2007

• Arbor Realty Trust Inc. and The Lightstone Group LLC, acquire Extended Stay Hotels from the Blackstone Group in $8.0 billion deal
• Isadore Sharp, Cascade Investment and Kingdom Hotel Investments acquire Four Seasons Hotels in $3.7 billion deal
• Blackstone Group acquires Hilton Hotels Corporation in $26 billion deal

Single Asset Transaction of the Year 2007

• Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc., purchase of the 402-room Boston Marriott Long Wharf (Boston, Massachusetts) for $228 million; approximately $568,000 per room, from Boston Properties, Inc.
• Northview Hotel Group, Five Star Realty Partners and Behringer Harvard purchase of the 177-room Hawks Cay Resort (Duck Key, Florida), which included management of 250 privately-owned villas participating in the Resort’s Rental Management Program, for $79 million from Barrington Heritage, LLC
• Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund purchase of the 310-room Maui Prince Hotel Makena (Maui, Hawaii), which included two 18-hole golf courses and 1,361 acres of land, for $575 million, from Maui Prince Hotel, LLC and Lokelani Resort Corporation
• Lowe Hospitality Group and Canyon Johnson Urban Fund purchase of the 1,119-room Hilton Washington DC, for $290 million; approximately $259,000 per room, from Hilton Hotels Corporation

Development of the Year 2006

• The 400-room MGM Grand – Detroit, Michigan, developed at a cost of $800 million by MGM Mirage
• The 89-room Solage Calistoga – Calistoga, California, developed by Auberge Resorts
• The 298-room The Liberty Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts, developed at a cost of $150 million by Carpenter & Company, Inc.

The 2008 ALIS conference will also honor Stephen F. Bollenbach, former co-chairman & CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation, for his lifelong dedication to cultivating industry growth.