Michael Selinger

Michael Selinger is a trusted advisor in the real estate and hospitality space. Mr. Selinger is recognized for advising clients on large-scale hospitality transactions and helping them navigate the financial, operational and strategic complexities associated with significant real estate investments.

With more than 15 years of experience, Mr. Selinger has served investors, developers, owners, operators and corporate clients, providing cross-asset-class real estate and hospitality expertise. He supports clients throughout the investment life cycle and brings transaction, operational and strategic perspectives to engagements.

Mr. Selinger’s experience includes end-to-end transaction advisory to support acquisitions, including financial and commercial due diligence, closing and post-closing adjustments. He combines financial diligence, operational insight and transaction execution experience to address complex business challenges and support investment decisions.

Beyond transactions, Mr. Selinger brings extensive strategy, operations and value creation advisory experience. He works closely with executive teams to develop feasibility analyses and provide investment decision support, evaluating growth opportunities, assessing market dynamics and identifying initiatives that enhance profitability and long-term value creation.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Selinger spent nearly 16 years with EY-Parthenon, most recently serving as a Senior Director in the Strategy & Transactions Real Estate and Hospitality practice. During his tenure, he worked on large-scale hospitality transactions and built a specialized transaction-closing advisory service that assists clients and their legal counsel with contract negotiations, prorations, purchase price adjustments and working capital analyses. His proprietary procedures and methodologies have helped clients realize more than $100 million of value across approximately $30 billion of transactions involving more than 600 properties.

Relevant Experience: 

• Advised on the $2 billion disposition of 14 all-inclusive resorts across the Caribbean and Mexico, supporting contract negotiations, purchase price adjustments and financial settlements
• Advised an international investor on the $6 billion acquisition of a 15-property luxury hotel portfolio and management company, providing financial diligence, market analysis and closing support
• Led financial diligence and transaction advisory for the $800 million acquisition of a luxury resort and country club, including purchase agreement support and closing prorations
• Led diligence for the $600 million acquisition of a 74-property manufactured housing portfolio with more than 29,000 pad sites, including underwriting, purchase agreement negotiations and closing proration calculations
• Led financial and commercial diligence for a global private equity investor’s $1.87 billion acquisition of a fully integrated real estate fund manager, evaluating revenue, fund performance, debt-like items, working capital and investment processes
• Led an independent business review and market positioning analysis for a university-owned hotel, assessing performance and repositioning opportunities including renovation, rebranding, franchise termination and student housing conversion