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 negotiations and closing support
• Advised an international investor on the $6 billion acquisition of a 15-property luxury hotel portfolio, providing financial diligence and closing support
• Led financial diligence for the $800 million acquisition of a luxury resort and membership club, including purchase agreement and closing support
• Led financial and commercial diligence for the $600 million acquisition of a 74-property manufactured housing portfolio, including closing support
• Led diligence for a $1.87 billion acquisition of a real estate fund manager, evaluating revenue, fund performance and working capital
• Led commercial diligence for a PE investment in a multifamily platform managing 40,000 units, evaluating market and competitive positioning
• Led a business review for a university-owned hotel, evaluating renovation, rebranding and adaptive reuse as student housing
• Developed a growth roadmap for a luxury hospitality platform, covering positioning, valuation and plans to double the business in five years
• Led a growth readiness assessment for a real estate developer, identifying improvements to support scalable expansion