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Jay Pritzker's brothers, Donald and Robert, were heavily involved with his business dealings, with Donald reporting to Jay as Hyatt's manager of operations and overseeing the first six hotels in the chain. The Pritzkers bought a half-completed hotel in in in Atlanta, Georgia , and turned it into an iconic John Portman-designed hotel with a story high atrium and futuristic feel. They named it the Hyatt Regency.

The Regency brand was meant to appeal to both business and leisure travelers, and even kicked off the trend of sky-high atrium lobbies. The company went public in With 12 hotels stateside, the company went international in by opening a Hyatt Regency in Hong Kong. While that initial structure is no longer standing as it was demolished in to make way for a commercial building , the hotel reopened in The Pritzkers created a separate company, Hyatt International Corporation, in to support efforts in expanding the chain abroad.

In , Donald died of a heart attack while playing tennis at age The Pritzkers' brother-in-law, Skip Friend Jr. Friend then spent hundreds of thousands of company dollars on personal expenses, Fortune Magazine reported in — in response, Jay moved the company's headquarters to Chicago.

Jay also completed the long process of buying out the public shareholders and took Hyatt private again by The opening of both hotels signified the diversification of the Hyatt portfolio, allowing the company to grow rapidly. By then, there were Hyatt hotels , with another 34 under construction. Before his death, Jay had named his son, Tom Pritzker, his successor in Prior to June 30, , Hyatt Corporation, which primarily consisted of the North American hotel management and franchise companies, was owned by HG, Inc.

H Group Holding, Inc. H Group , which is owned by Pritzker family business interests, owns HG. In addition to owning Hyatt Corporation, HG owned various other North American hospitality related businesses primarily consisting of hotel properties and the vacation ownership business and on June 30, contributed these hospitality related businesses to Hyatt Corporation. Following such contribution, the stock of Hyatt Corporation was distributed to the Pritzker family business interests that owned H Group.

We refer to this transaction as the "June Transaction.