Our Team

Neil Kirk

CEO, EUROPE & UK & Special Projects

Neil joined L+R Hotels in 2020 and currently oversees European and UK acquisitions as well as firm-wide Asset Management for owned and operated hotels.

Previously, Neil was a Director at Westmont Hospitality Group, and oversaw all transactional activity as well being involved in asset management and driving operational initiatives across the group’s owned and operating assets. This included the acquisition of 24 mid-market IHG hotels across seven countries, 8 Hilton hotels across five countries as well as numerous single asset transactions throughout Europe.

He brings over fifteen years of hotel investing and asset management experience to the team, having invested and managed assets through the last investment cycle. As well as direct asset acquisition, Neil has experience in NPLs, acquisitions through corporate administration processes and has been involved in the restructuring of several hotel businesses, most specifically the conversion of legacy hotel management agreements to franchise agreements. He has also has significant experience in bilateral joint ventures and regulated funds.

Most recently he worked as a Principal at Henderson Park, where he had responsibility for asset management of the company’s growing hotel portfolio.

Neil began his career at KPMG where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, he holds a BEng Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.