Anthony Polvino is the co-founder of Areté Law and is widely regarded as a leading authority in the shared vacation ownership, resort development, and travel products sector. With more than 30 years of experience, he serves as primary outside counsel and strategic advisor to public and privately held hospitality companies, developers, lenders, and program sponsors nationwide. Clients rely on Mr. Polvino for commercially grounded, strategic counsel on complex and high-exposure leisure and hospitality matters.

Mr. Polvino advises clients across the full lifecycle of complex leisure and hospitality platforms, with a particular focus on the structuring and launch of vacation ownership and membership programs and multistate regulatory compliance matters. He also represents clients in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions within the leisure and hospitality sector. He regularly advises on sophisticated financing arrangements, including securitizations and acquisition, development, construction, and receivables facilities.

Mr. Polvino is widely credited with helping design and pioneer the capital-light, fee-for-services business model in the vacation ownership industry. He was directly involved in the model’s early architecture and represented clients on both the developer and service-provider sides of the first generation of transactions, continuing in that role across more than 20 subsequent capital-light transactions.

Mr. Polvino advises clients on the design of legally compliant marketing and sales programs and on broader marketing and consumer protection matters, including telemarketing and do-not-call compliance. He has guided companies through dozens of high-stakes investigations and enforcement actions brought by State Attorneys General, including multistate matters involving the marketing, sale, and servicing of vacation membership and travel products.

Mr. Polvino serves on the Board of Directors of ARDA (American Resort Development Association), the Washington, D.C.–based trade association for the vacation ownership industry. He is an accredited member of the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys (AHIA), holds Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV® Preeminent™ rating, and was recognized by Chambers USA as a Leading Business Lawyer in Leisure & Hospitality.