Alan Tantleff

Alan Tantleff is the Leader of the Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure industry practice and specializes in real estate. Mr. Tantleff has more than 30 years of experience in lodging, gaming and real estate investment and development.

Mr. Tantleff applies his broad background and experience in hospitality to a wide variety of engagements, with a particular focus on strategy, business process improvement, initial public offering preparedness, investment banking and transactional support, and workouts and financial restructurings. Mr. Tantleff has advised boards of directors, chief executive officers, lenders, borrowers and other stakeholders on numerous high-profile hospitality matters.

Mr. Tantleff began his career at the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey as the senior operations analyst responsible for the profitable operation of the casino-hotel. After that, he was recruited to manage the $2 billion hospitality portfolio of The Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”), the nation’s largest institutional owner of hotels. Here he oversaw all phases of Prudential’s investment strategy, including liaising with managers, partners and investors; acquisitions, dispositions and due diligence; and asset management.

After executing several private and public market transactions for the insurer, Mr. Tantleff joined Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels (“JLL”) as the leader of the New York office, where he led the brokerage group’s most active practice and initiated the company’s foray into asset management. At JLL, he was a founding member of the International Capital Committee, which matched international capital with opportunities globally. At the onset of the financial crisis, he joined BlackRock Financial Services, leading the efforts in restructuring the hospitality component of the financial manager’s $6 billion sub-debt portfolio. He also held senior management positions at Hotel Asset Value Enhancement and Granite Partners (Savilles).

Relevant Experience:

• Serves on the Board of Directors of Cornell University’s Center for Real Estate Finance and serves as a co-chair for the annual Cornell Real Estate Conference, one of the longest-running university-affiliated real estate conferences
• Participates in pro-bono activities, including management consulting for “Friends of Firefighters,” a not-for-profit founded after 9/11 to provide mental health and wellness counseling to FDNY firefighters and their families
• Served as chief restructuring officer to Eagle Hospitality Group, a Singapore-based REIT that owned 18 hotel properties throughout the U.S.
• Former advisory board member of Checked-In, an app to assist travelers connecting with their network when traveling
• Former board member of the Cornell Alumni Federation, where he represented the School of Hotel Administration in university affairs

Awards & Recognition:

• Rainmakers in CRE Debt, Equity & Finance, GlobeSt. (2025)
• Notable Leaders in Real Estate, Crain’s New York Business (2023)
• The Top 25 Travel and Hospitality Consultants and Leaders, The Consulting Report (2023)