<h1>Organizing a hospitality investment forum: legal risks in securities compliance, antitrust, data protection, contracts, and cross-border rules</h1> An industry organizer announced a regional hospitality investment forum drawing over 100 institutional investors representing approximately $107 billion in assets under management, marketed as a deal-focused platform for capital deployment and partnership formation. Legal considerations include compliance with securities and solicitation laws for investor outreach, antitrust risks from facilitated interactions among competing investors and operators, confidentiality and data-protection obligations when sharing proprietary transaction data, and contractual clarity for sponsorship, media and registration arrangements. Event operators should also assess liability exposure, intellectual property rights in programming content, and applicable cross-border regulatory requirements.