Practice Expertise

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Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mortgage Industry M&A
  • Real Estate Capital Markets/REITs
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Profile

Rob serves as the head of the firm's real estate capital markets/REIT practice. He is a nationally recognized lawyer with over 25 years of experience in advising public and private real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other real estate and finance companies on a broad range of capital markets, M&A, securities, governance, and SEC compliance matters. He counsels both issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, 144A offerings, and other private placements, and has represented a variety of parties, including mortgage, office, industrial, land-banking, data center, retail, and self-storage companies, related to many different types of REITs. Rob has significant REIT M&A experience and is a trusted advisor to multiple REIT boards of directors. He also has acted as an industry expert witness in REIT-related proceedings.

Rob is recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA for REITs (2021-2025). He is also recommended by Legal 500 US for REITs (2017-2019 and 2022-2025).

Additionally, since 2017, Rob has acted as outside corporate counsel on a pro bono basis to Project Destined, a national, real estate focused non-profit organization dedicated to furthering education in the US.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, SUNY Buffalo Law School, magna cum laude, Note and Comment Editor, The Buffalo Law, 2001

    BA, St. Bonaventure University, cum laude, 1998

    Areas of Practice

    • Banking and Finance
    • Capital Markets and Securities
    • Corporate
    • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
    • Initial Public Offerings
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Mortgage Industry M&A
    • Real Estate Capital Markets/REITs

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