Profile
Glenn A. Gerena is a real estate, hospitality, and community development attorney based in Fort Lauderdale, with a practice focused on recreational club membership programs, resort and marina transactions, and community governance structures across the United States and the Caribbean. He advises developers, investors, lenders, and club owners on private club, HOA, and planned unit development matters, including nonequity, equity, and membership deposit club structures, mandatory membership programs, and mixed-use community association governance. His deep experience makes him a resource for clients navigating complex hospitality, resort, marina, and residential community transactions.
Glenn’s representative experience spans club membership program structuring and restructuring, marina slip sales programs, hotel and marina management agreements, and residential rental management documentation. He has represented parties in club facility sales, and developer turnovers of equity clubs to member ownership. His work also includes advising on HOA formation, cost and governance sharing agreements for mixed-use developments, and club member and property owner voting processes. Whether clients are acquiring, developing, restructuring, or financing club, hospitality and residential community assets, Glenn provides legal counsel tailored to the demands of the club, real estate and hospitality market.
Concentrations
- Club, marina and resort and hospitality practice
- Planned Community development
- Purchase and sale transactions
- Contracts
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented club owners in sales and purchases of club facilities.
- Prepared club membership documents for nonequity, membership deposit, member-owned, and association clubs.
- Represented club owners in a variety of club membership program restructuring, including:
- (i) conversions to refundable membership deposit programs,
- (ii) conversions to equity member-owned programs, and
- (iii) mergers of clubs and mergers of club and association.
- Represented developers in turnovers of equity clubs to members.
- Acted as special club counsel to debtor in possession of a club and resort project in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- Represented lenders with respect to club membership programs in projects in foreclosure and projects transferred in lieu of foreclosure.
- Represented purchasers and investors in club and planned unit development projects with respect to due diligence and acquisition of assets.
- Represented club owners in founder member programs.
- Advised developers and prepared documentation for mandatory membership structures.
- Prepared documentation for club member and property owner votes and consulted regarding process to obtain favorable vote result.
- Advised developer of mixed unit project regarding community association documents and cost and governance sharing agreements and structures.
- Negotiated and drafted club, marina and hotel management agreements.
- Prepared project management and marketing agreements.
- Prepared residential unit rental management documentation.
- Prepared documentation for marina slip sales programs, including right to use, equity clubs, and deeded structures.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
- Real Estate Law, 2026-2027
- Leisure and Hospitality Law, 2027
- Listed, Who's Who Legal, Hospitality, 2024
- Team Member, Chambers & Partners USA Real Estate Law Firm of the Year, 2010, 2013, 2017-2018, and 2022
- Team Member, a Law360 “Hospitality Practice Group of the Year,” 2021
- Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers®, "Law Firm of the Year" in Real Estate Law, 2015
- Team Member, The Legal 500 United States, "Top Tier" Firm in Real Estate, 2013 and 2014
- Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2011-2013, 2015, and 2022-2023
- Rated, AV Preeminent® 4.9 out of 5.0
- Member, Urban Land Institute
- Member, Community Development Council (Gold Flight)
- Member, National Club Association
- Member, Legal Committee
Credentials
-
J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
- Article and Comments Editor, University of Miami Law Review
- B.B.A., magna cum laude, University of Miami
- Florida