Hume Street Management etc. v. Beverly Hills Acquisition CA2/8

Filed 11/14/25 Hume Street Management etc. v. Beverly Hills Acquisition CA2/8 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

HUME STREET B329336 MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS, LIMITED, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 22SMCV02646) Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

BEVERLY HILLS ACQUISITION LLC,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Edward B. Moreton, Jr., Judge. Affirmed. Latham & Watkins, Marvin S. Putnam and Jessica Stebbins Bina for Defendant and Appellant. Munger, Tolles & Olson, Brad D. Brian, Laura D. Smolowe, Craig Jennings Lavoie and Rachel G. Miller-Ziegler for Plaintiff and Respondent. _______________________

Beverly Hills Acquisition LLC (BHA) appeals the denial of its motion to compel Hume Street Management Consultants Limited (Hume) to arbitrate its claims against BHA. We affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Hume alleges it is owed millions of dollars in fees for services it provided at The Maybourne Beverly Hills, a hotel owned by BHA. According to Hume’s complaint, over the course of two years it managed the hotel’s day-to-day operations, rebranded it, navigated local government planning and permitting requirements for its redevelopment, and designed and oversaw that redevelopment, but was not compensated for this work. Hume sued BHA and others, asserting claims for breach of contract, account stated, quantum meruit, promissory estoppel, and unjust enrichment. BHA moved to compel arbitration of the dispute based on an arbitration provision included in a December 10, 2020 Hotel Management Agreement (Agreement) between BHA and Maybourne Hotels, Limited (MHL), which established MHL as the managing entity for the hotel. Hume was not a party to the contract. Neither Hume nor its principal, Patrick McKillen, signed the Agreement. However, the director of MHL who signed the Agreement on MHL’s behalf, Liam Cunningham, was also a director of Hume at the time the Agreement was signed. BHA contended that even though Hume was not a party to the Agreement, it should be bound by the Agreement’s arbitration provision because the provision stated that all claims related to the management and development of the hotel are subject to arbitration. BHA argued that because Cunningham signed the Agreement while he was a director of Hume in addition to MHL, and because McKillen “was intimately involved